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To Francis Darwin   27 December [1880]

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FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  27 Dec [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12945

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  • Francis and his son, Bernard Darwin , had gone to Coniston ( Emma Darwins diary (DAR 242)). CD had stayed at the Waterhead Hotel, Coniston, on Victor Marshall ’s Monk Coniston estate, in 1879. Marshall’ s wife

From J. M. Herbert   28 December 1880

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News of JMH’s second marriage.

Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.

Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.

Author:  John Maurice Herbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 166: 187
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12884

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  • s wife, Frances Whitley , had died on 15 December 1879. William Crawley was archdeacon of Monmouth; his son, Charles Crawley , was a friend of Francis Darwin , …