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To W. E. Darwin   14 [March 1859]

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Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2431

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  • … visited Down from 10 to 14 March 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD had recently purchased a …
  • … House. Mrs Grut had been engaged by Emma Darwin in January 1859 as a governess for the …
  • … written in December 1858 (DAR 210.6), Emma Darwin wrote that she was ‘looking out for a …
  • … was terminated on 16 March 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary) because of an incident that took …
  • … day CD’s letter was written. Henrietta Emma Darwin recounted the incident in a letter to …

To Charles Lyell   30 March [1859]

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CD is grateful to CL for his help in arranging with Murray for publication [of Origin]. Sorry Murray objects to term "abstract" in title, but will defer to him and CL.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  30 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.164)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2439

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  • … assistance. — Yours most truly | C.  Darwin Emma comes up to London for 2 or 3 days on …
  • … for life’. See Young 1985  and Secord 1985 . Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that …
  • … she went to London with Henrietta Emma Darwin on1 April 1859 and returned to Down on 4  …

To John Innes   4 March [1859]

Summary

Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  4 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2232

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  • … 9 March 1859, p.  1). On 12 March 1859, Emma Darwin wrote to William: ‘I forget whether I …

To J. D. Hooker   5 [March 1859]

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Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.

CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  5 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2424

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  • … Robinson , the London dentist whom CD and Emma Darwin usually attended. He practised at 7  …