From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
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- … John Scott then lord of the manor of Knightlow and I believe it dates back to very ancient times indeed the name of Wroth penny would seem to point to Saxon Now I think it very likely that originally the fine stood thus Thirty shillings or (& not and) a white bull with red ears but that grasping lords of the hundred had managed to extort both the fine & the alternative if this were so it would set a white bull with red ears as worth 30/– a very large price …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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