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From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer   [16 October 1877]

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CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  [16 Oct 1877]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11268

From A. R. Smith   16 October 1877

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Gives a possible explanation of exceptions to CD’s observation [Descent, ch. 7] that characters correlated with one sex tend to appear late in life.

Author:  Austin Rogers Smith
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Oct 1877
Classmark:  DAR 177: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11186
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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