Mitford, Mary Russell. 1870. The life of Mary Russell Mitford, authoress of ‘Our village’, etc., related in a selection from her letters to her friends. Edited by Alfred Guy Kingham L’estrange. 2d edition. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley.
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To E. R. Lankester 9 July 1879
Summary
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 |
Longworth, M. T. (1833–81)
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- … Oxford University Press. 2004. 7 Yelverton, W. C. Forbes, E. M. House of Lords Authoress …
To Asa Gray 15 March [1870]
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The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7132 |
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- … 1870. The life of Mary Russell Mitford, authoress of ‘Our village’, etc. , related in a …
From J. D. Hooker [26 September 1865]
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On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Sept 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 34–6a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4899 |
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Variation in Commentary
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 …
