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To ?   12 March 1882

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Thanks for letter and promise to send pamphlet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  12 Mar 1882
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13725

To ?   29 March 1882

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"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  29 Mar 1882
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13748A
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3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo

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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…

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  • … above, it would need to have been early in that year. A letter which Leonard wrote to his father …
  • … to the portrait of Darwin, although a pencilled note on the letter could suggest that Leonard was …
  • … Otto Zacharias in the Illustrirte Zeitung of Leipzig in 1882 . Francis Darwin lent the …
  • … DAR 186.34 (DCP-LETT-11484), Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing unidentified
  • … version in Illustrirte Zeitung no. 2026 (29 April 1882), DAR 216.82. Darwin Centenary: The …
  • … Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 47, no. 252. Rich’s letter to the Darwin family mentioning …