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From Blanche and Alice 27 May 1878
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Request an autograph.
| Author: | Blanche; Alice |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11531 |
From Alice and Blanche 31 May 1878
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Thank CD for autograph.
| Author: | Blanche; Alice |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11537 |
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| Blanche | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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| Blanche | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … of Lenten missions due to take place between 26 February and 5 March 1871 in four towns within the …
- … F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. and C. R. Darwin, [1867–72], letter nos. 7058–62). She had published a …
- … it is fresh in my mind I will give an account of it. Lena & Alice M. 2 were both mission …
- … intolerable she fled & was seen no more. Miss Hollway 5 was sitting by Lena & was …
- … when I feel my day made bright & happy by one short letter. I want him to take me in his arms …
- … wife, Emily Caroline , was nicknamed Lena. 2 Alice Massingberd . 3 …
- … 4 Probably John Bourdieu Wilkinson . 5 Miss Hollway ( sic ) has not been …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
- … anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July …
- … best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ) …
- … condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
- … translation remained unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November …
- … to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January …
- … comparison of Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
- … a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
- … Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January …
- … was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872 …
- … hoping for reconciliation, if only `in another world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January …
- … have been ungracious in him not to thank Mivart for his letter. He promised to send a copy of the …
- … partly in mind, `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] …
- … Darwinism is to be the theme. Surely the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 …
- … to find that Weismann accepted it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I …
- … few naturalists in England seem inclined to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May …
- … reached the buzzing place where I myself was standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May …
- … ‘as for myself it is dreadful doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was …
- … to stand closer (a serried mass) and to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ) …
- … and amused rather than offended by `that clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 …
- … wrote offering Arthur May’s drawings shortly afterwards ( letter from Samuel Butler to Francis …
- … to me, which have ever been made’ ( letter to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 ). In June, Lady …
- … a sequel to his moderately successful children’s book, Alice’s adventures in Wonderland , …
