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From G. H. Darwin   18 October 1874

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Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.

Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.

Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Oct 1874
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9683

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  • … Naples earlier in the year (see letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] ). Thomas Henry …

From G. H. Darwin   [22 January 1882]

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Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Jan 1882]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13636

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  • Michael Foster , Alice Blanche Balfour , and Gerald William Balfour . Southampton. Ida and Horace Darwin ’s first child, Erasmus , was born on 7 December 1881. Mary was probably Mary Dibley , a housemaid to Horace and Ida in 1881, and possibly a nursemaid to Erasmus (letter
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