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From W. T. Thiselton Dyer to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9424F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Cancelled: third-party letter. …

From J. H. Gladstone to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancel: third-party letter.

Author:  John Hall Gladstone
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Cancel: third-party letter. …

From T. R. Stebbing to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter.

Author:  Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425I

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Cancelled: third-party letter. …

From E. T. S.   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.

Author:  Unidentified
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425J

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’. …

Tilt, A. P. (1854–88)

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  • … Painted Baroness Burdett-Coutts’ garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the …
  • … 1982. Baroness Burdett-Coutts’ garden party: the International Medical Congress, London, …

From H. C. Key to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter from H. C. Key.

Author:  Henry Cooper Key
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425G

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Cancelled: third-party letter from H. C. Key. …

From G. M. Seabroke to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter from G. M. Seabrook.

Author:  George Mitchell Seabroke
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425H

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Cancelled: third-party letter from G. M. Seabrook. …

Sakula, Alex. 1982. Baroness Burdett-Coutts’ garden party: the International Medical Congress, London, 1881. Medical History 26: 183–90.

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1982. Baroness Burdett-Coutts’ garden party: the International Medical Congress, London, …

Hanham, Harold John. [1959.] Elections and party management: politics in the time of Disraeli and Gladstone. [London]: Longmans.

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  • … Hanham, Harold John. [1959. ] Elections and party management: politics in the time of …

To Charles Babbage   [February 1839 – August 1842]

Summary

Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Babbage
Date:  [Feb 1839 – Aug 1842]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 37191: 298)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-470

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party. …
  • … with M rs . Darwin and myself, to your party on Saturday Evening, a relative of ours, Miss …

To Charles Babbage   19 [February 1839 – August 1842]

Summary

Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Babbage
Date:  19 [Feb 1839 - Aug 1842]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 37191: 299)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-479

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World ". …
  • … kind as to allow me to bring her to your party on Saturday, that she may see the World. — …

From Wallis Nash   4 January 1880

Summary

Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.

Author:  Wallis Nash
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 172: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12400

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Illustrated London News , and Field were all weekly magazines. The Greenback Party was a …
  • … US political party founded in 1874 in opposition to …
  • … gold-backed currency; the Know Nothing party was …
  • … a political party founded in the 1850s in opposition to immigration ( EB 27: 703, 721). …

Favre, Alphonse. 1867. Recherches géologiques dans les parties de la Savoie, du Piémont et de la Suisse voisines du Mont-Blanc. 3 vols. and atlas. Paris: V. Masson et Fils.

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1867. Recherches géologiques dans les parties de la Savoie, du Piémont et de la Suisse …

Montémont, Albert Étienne de. 1833–6. Bibliothèque universelle des voyages effectués par mer ou par terre dans les diverses parties du monde, depuis les premières découvertes jusqu’à nos jours. 46 vols. Paris.

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  • … par mer ou par terre dans les diverses parties du monde, depuis les premières découvertes …

Needell, Jeffrey D. 2006. The party of order: the conservatives, the state, and slavery in the Brazilian monarchy, 1831–1871. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

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  • … Needell, Jeffrey D. 2006. The party of order: the conservatives, the state, and slavery in …

Smith, Albert Richard. 1843. The physiology of evening parties. In The wassail-bowl, by Albert Richard Smith. 2 vols. in 1. London: Richard Bently.

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Richard. 1843. The physiology of evening parties. In The wassail-bowl , by Albert Richard …

Landsborough, William (1825–86)

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  • … led a search for the ill-fated expedition party led by Robert O’Hara Burke and William …
  • … University Press. 1966–96. 10 expedition party Burke, R. H. Wills, W. J. Scotland New …

Vernet, L. E. (1791–1871)

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  • … merchant, and civil servant. A major party in the dispute between the Argentinians, the …
  • … Geographical Society of London 3: 94–9. 9 party in the dispute government of Buenos Aires …

From Gaston de Saporta   16 December 1877

Summary

He has heard CD is about to be elected to the Académie des Sciences.

Cross and self-fertilisation, with its emphasis on insect pollination, helps explain the problem he has worked on for so long: i.e., the rapid diversification of angiosperms in the fossil record occurs in conjunction with the diversification of insects.

Author:  Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Dec 1877
Classmark:  DAR 177: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11281

Matches: 12 hits

  • … étant antérieure et aux avortements de parties et à la dioïcité dont le Ceratonia donne l’ …
  • … être certainement du nombre. La réduction du parties, leur avortement, l’adaptation l’ …
  • … ornementation l’ampleur et l’irrégularité des parties qui accompagnent les organes sexuels …
  • … a commencé à se constituer— Les fleurs à parties nombreuses, multiples, d’une part et, de …
  • … proviennent les uns et les autres des mêmes parties transformées— une fin le strobile …
  • … se modifiant par suite du voisinage des parties sexuées ont donné lieu aux pieces et aux …
  • … multiples, 2  ou ses multiples qui régit les parties de la fleur chez les Dicotylédons— c’ …
  • … entier est l’origine de toutes des fleurs à parties multiples de celles dont la fleur de …
  • … sexué ne comprenait qu’un petit nombre de parties, situés vers la sommité d’un rameau et …
  • … isolées, formées d’un nombre restreint de parties sexuées— Dans mon hypothèse la prèsence …
  • … dans beaucoup de plantes, l’ensemble des parties florales, le rameau eu plutôt la branche …
  • … avortement, développement de leur parties composantes— de là retour non seulement à la …

From Mary Congreve   27 October [1821]

Summary

Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.

Author:  Mary Congreve
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Oct [1821]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 186
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party. …
  • … assure you I wish’d much you had been of our party on thursday night at the play, I think …
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

Summary

Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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  • … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …

Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage

Summary

Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…

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  • … at the botanical lectures, excursions, and undergraduate parties organised by the professor of …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

Summary

‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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  • … from physiologists, medical educators, and other interested parties. Darwin was summoned to testify …
  • … book: ‘My hope is that Kant, whose standing with all parties in Germany is exceedingly high, …

Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep

Summary

In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Darwin spent over a month corresponding with the various parties, repeatedly revising his own letter …