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Letters. Correspondence.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letters of Charles Darwin, mostly to John Murray III., 1845-1881.

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Identifier: MS.42152
Scope and Contents The letters have been retained in their original order, having been previously foliated. Where the date of the letter has not been ascertained from the physical letter, the dates according to the 'Darwin Correspondence Project' have been used.Letters of Francis Darwin to John Murray [III], 1887: folios 1-2;Letters of Charles Robert Darwin to John Murray [III], including an enclosure of a letter of Charles Darwin to Henry Colburn and a manuscript copy of an 1837...
Dates: 1845-1881.

Letters of, to and concerning Charles Darwin., 1845-1882.

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Identifier: MS.42153
Scope and Contents The letters have been largely arranged in chronological order. Those that were of uncertain date have been placed at the end of the sequence.Letter of Charles Darwin to John Murray returning a receipt to Murray and thanking him for information on the success of his ‘Journal’, 2 September [1843]: folios 1-2;Receipt in respect of a payment for the entire copyright of Darwin’s, ‘Journal on Natural History and Geology during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle around the World’,...
Dates: 1845-1882.