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To Francis Darwin   [before 1 August 1880]

Summary

Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [before 1 Aug 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12645

To Francis Darwin   28 July [1880]

Summary

Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  28 July [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12672

To Francis Darwin   5 August [1880]

Summary

Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  5 Aug [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12679

To Francis Darwin   11 August [1880]

Summary

Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  11 Aug [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12686

To Francis Darwin   27 December [1880]

Summary

FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  27 Dec [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12945

To Francis Darwin   [after 27 December 1880]

Summary

The Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone in support of a pension for A. R. Wallace.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [after 27 Dec 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12950

To the Darwin children   10 January 1880

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Summary

Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  10 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12414

To the Darwin children   17 [January 1880]

Summary

Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  17 [Jan 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12429