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From A. M. Lane Fox   3 August 1875

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Hexadactyly. Regrowth of removed supernumerary digits.

Author:  Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 164: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10108

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  • … Stanley, A. M. Lane Fox, A. M. Pitt-Rivers, A. M. Darwin, C. R. …

From A. M. Lane Fox to E. F. Lubbock   25 July [1875]

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Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.

Author:  Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers
Addressee:  Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:  25 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 170
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10093

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  • Darwin of my own accord when reading his interesting book on the Descent of Man when it first appeared on the subject. I am sorry however to say the Surgeon who performed the operation on my eldest son (D r Trench Staff surgeon at Malta) has been dead several years but I will try as far as I can to make up for the more accurate & technical details he no doubt c