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To Susan Darwin   [22 February 1842]

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Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].

Plans to visit Shrewsbury.

Describes behaviour of William Darwin.

Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:  [22 Feb 1842]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-621

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  • … To Susan Darwin   [22 February 1842] …
  • … London, Upper Gower St, 12 [22 Feb 1842] Susan Elizabeth …

To W. D. Fox   23 March [1842]

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Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  23 Mar [1842]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-624

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  • … her’ ( Autobiography , p.  22). See also Correspondence …

To W. H. Fitton   23 June 1842

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[Excerpt copied from a letter CD wrote to WHF.]

CD’s gratefulness to William Buckland for his guidance on the glaciated terrain of N. Wales. "I am also convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy … have been occupied by arms of the Sea, & very likely, (for on that point I cannot of course doubt Agassiz & Buckland) by glaciers also."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Henry Fitton
Date:  23 June 1842
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, MS Am 1419: 239)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-632

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  • … from William Buckland , dated 22 July 1842. According to …

To William Yarrell   [5 or 12 September 1842]

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CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.

Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Yarrell
Date:  [5 or 12] Sept 1842
Classmark:  Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-613

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  • … bantam, in which the cocks lack male plumage ( EB, 22: 215). …
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