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From W. R. Browne   [20–2] November [1881]

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Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.

Author:  Walter Raleigh Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20–2] Nov [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 334
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12789

To K. M. Lyell   20 November 1881

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Thanks for Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881), but he has already ordered a copy. Can he send the ordered copy to her to give to another, or can he send it on her behalf?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:  20 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9–10 July 2018, lot 375)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13492F

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   20 November [1881]

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Magnificent supply of Euphorbiae arrived safely.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  20 Nov [1881]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 230)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13493

From G. H. Darwin   [20 November 1881]

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Writes of Challis’ health

and of other matters of family interest.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Nov 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13494