To E. R. Lankester 9 July 1879
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Asks that authoress be thanked for poem. Enjoyed poetry in old days; now cannot read a line.
Delighted that ERL will find time for original investigations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 9 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.565) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12140 |
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. |
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| 1879 | (1) |
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … he was ‘ravished’ with: ‘what a clever person the authoress is, I like it even better than Adam Bede …
