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To Lawson Tait   16 July [1880]

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Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  16 July [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12659

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  • Darwin was probably in Wales at this time (see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 August 1880] ); he went to Coniston in the Lake District from about 7 to 17 August ( letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 August 1880] ( …

To W. E. Darwin   14 January [1881]

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Discusses earthworm activity

and animal grazing on slopes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13013

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  • Darwin and Francis Darwin . Cudham Valley was about a mile from Down House. See Correspondence vol. 28, letter from W. E. Darwin, 31 December [1880] …

From W. E. Darwin   22 November [1880]

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Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12840F

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To F. E. Abbot   15 April 1880

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Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".

Sends £5 for Index subscription.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:  15 Apr 1880
Classmark:  Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12577

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From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot   13 June [1880]

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CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:  13 June [1880]
Classmark:  Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12633

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To W. E. Darwin   18 June 1880

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Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  18 June 1880
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 160
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12639

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  • 1880 . William had examined the buried pavement at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire on 5 January 1872 and CD had visited on 22 June 1877 ( Earthworms , pp. 193–7); see also Correspondence vol. 24, Supplement, letter from W. E. Darwin, [4 January 1872] , and Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Francis
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