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To G. H. Darwin   [1882?]

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Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  [1882?]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13590

To G. H. Darwin   21 January 1882

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Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  21 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13631

From G. H. Darwin   [22 January 1882]

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Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Jan 1882]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13636

From G. H. Darwin   [23 January 1882]

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Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Jan 1882]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13639

From G. H. Darwin   23 January 1882

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Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.

Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13640

To G. H. Darwin   24 February [1882]

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Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  24 Feb [1882]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13704

From G. H. Darwin to A. R. Wallace   23 October 1869

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 191)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6955G

DCP-LETT-9589

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9589

From W. E. Darwin and G. H. Darwin to John Lubbock   22 April 1882

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Inviting Lubbock to be a pall-bearer at CD’s funeral.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  22 Apr 1882
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 49645: 128–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13769I

To the Darwin children   8 January 1882

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Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.

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:  8 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 185: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13603