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To ?   9 December 1872

Summary

Thanks an unidentifiable natural history society for electing him an honorary member.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  9 Dec 1872
Classmark:  Galerie Frédéric Castaing (dealer) (November 2013)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8665F

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   9 December [1872]

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Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  9 Dec [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B124–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8666

From Alexander Agassiz   9 December 1872

Summary

Thanks for Expression.

Has lost a year’s work in the fire that has devastated Boston.

Author:  Alexander Agassiz
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Dec 1872
Classmark:  G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, pp. 120–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8667

From A. J. Munby   9 December 1872

Summary

Gives a graphic description of a woman being terrified by mistaking him for a ghost in an old house.

Author:  Arthur Joseph Munby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Dec 1872
Classmark:  Expression 2d ed., pp. 306–7 n. 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8667F