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To Robert Hunt   22 July [1855]

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Mentions RH’s book on light [Researches on light in its chemical relations, 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments on plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Hunt
Date:  22 July [1855]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1727

To Robert Hunt   31 July [1855]

Summary

Mentions experiments on plants involving coloured glass. Encloses correspondence from glass maker and asks advice.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Hunt
Date:  31 July [1855]
Classmark:  Bonhams (dealers) (28 September 2004)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1734

To Robert Hunt   3 May [1866]

Summary

Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Hunt
Date:  3 May [1866]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5524
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