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To G. H. Darwin   [after 25 February 1879]

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Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  [after 25 Feb 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10342

To Francis Darwin   [before 25 February 1879]

Summary

CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?

Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].

Sends his love to George.

Bernard gets more charming every day.

CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [before 25 Feb 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 271.4: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11883A

From Francis Darwin   [c. 25 February 1879]

Summary

Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 25 Feb 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11883F

From W. E. Darwin   25 February [1879]

Summary

Thanks CD profusely for the circular which detailed his and Emma Darwin’s plans to increase their children’s income. Thinks a few hundred really makes the difference for feeling really rich, especially as he now knows how important it is for bankers to have available personal savings.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Feb [1879]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 71)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11896F

To Karl Höchberg   25 February 1879

Summary

Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Höchberg
Date:  25 Feb 1879
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11902

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   25 [February 1879]

Summary

Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  25 [Feb 1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 162)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11903

To C. A. Lindvall   25 February 1879

Summary

CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.

Encloses his photograph.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Carl August Lindvall
Date:  25 Feb 1879
Classmark:  Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (MS C. A. Lindvall)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11904