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To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 January [1881]
Summary
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12985 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July 1881
Summary
Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.
His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 12 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13243 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 November 1881
Summary
At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507F |
