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From Francis Darwin   [July 1878]

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Reports observations on day and night movement in Porlieria.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 209.14: 181 [2nd sheet]
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11578

To Francis Darwin   [before 17 July 1878]

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Thanks for list of sleepers.

Thinks it would be a good idea to give writing machine to Carl Semper.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11579

To M. H. Truelove   1 July 1878

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Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.

Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:  1 July 1878
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11580

To J. D. Hooker   1 July 1878

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JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.

Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 July 1878
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c. 1875 – c. 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11581

From H. S. Sanguinetti   July 1878

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Change of address.

Author:  Herbert Samuel Sanguinetti
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  July 1878
Classmark:  DAR 209.13: 9r
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7842