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To G. C. Robertson   24 June [1877]

Summary

Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Croom Robertson
Date:  24 June [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 147: 326
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11013

To ?   24 June [1877]

Summary

Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".

Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.

His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  24 June [1877]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11014

From Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek   [c. 24 June 1877]

Summary

CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:  [c. 24 June 1877]
Classmark:  Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11014F