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From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin   24 September 1877

Summary

Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.

Author:  Samuel Butler
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1877
Classmark:  DAR 199.5: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11152

From Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin   18 November 1877

Summary

Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.

Author:  Henry Jackson
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 209.11: 260
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11239

From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin   25 November 1877

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SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.

Author:  Samuel Butler
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 393
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11254

To Francis Darwin   [c. 20 March 1877]

Summary

Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [c. 20 Mar 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10752

To Francis Darwin   [10 June 1877]

Summary

Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him

and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [10 June 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10995

From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin   31 December 1877

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Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11299