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From Thomas Rivers   6 June 1866

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Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.

Author:  Thomas Rivers
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 June 1866
Classmark:  DAR 176: 167
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5114
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Charles Thomas Whitley

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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…

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  • … of a martinet and every inch a ‘don’” ([Anon.] 1895 p. 606) – and indeed as he wrote to Darwin …