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From W. D. Fox   8 March [1856]

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Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.

Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.

Author:  William Darwin Fox
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar [1856]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 174
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1646

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  • … Emily Catherine Darwin , and Caroline Sarah Wedgwood . The number of CD’s portfolio of …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   21 September [1856]

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States his requirements with regard to pigeons and his interest in ducks and rabbits. Inquires about poultry seen at Leith Hill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  21 Sept [1856]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1957

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  • … Place, the home of CD’s sister Caroline Sarah Wedgwood . CD stayed there from 13 to 19  …

To William Erasmus Darwin   [26 February 1856]

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Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.

Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [26 Feb 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1804

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  • … Leith Hill Place was the home of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III . See n.  1, above. The …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   [18 September 1856]

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CD concerned with rabbits and ducks because evidence of their single origin is "better … than in most cases".

Death of William Yarrell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  [18 Sept 1856]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1955

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  • … he visited his sister Caroline and her husband, Josiah Wedgwood III , at their home, Leith …
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