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To Elizabeth Wedgwood   [28 August 1837]

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Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:  [28 Aug 1837]
Classmark:  V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-375

From Elizabeth Wedgwood   10 November [1837]

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Sends information about, and dates of treatment of peaty fields. Marl seems to have sunk to the natural stratum of hard white sand which lies below the peat.

Thanks for "Maer Hypothesis" ["Formation of mould" (1840), Collected papers 1: 49–53].

Author:  Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood, II
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Nov [1837]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-385
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