Manuscripts
Letters and documents related to Charles Ben Darwin
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- Description
- Group of letters and documents by and related to Charles Ben Darwin. Includes a poem by Darwin written "for Kate Snyder's album" (1853), a letter from W.H.L. Barnes referring to Darwin's defense of Martha Wilson (1885), a letter from Samuel Morgan Shortridge to Darwin asking for a recommendation to the General Land Office in the Arizona Territory (1889), 2 letters of recommendation for Darwin to the Iowa Delegation at Washington, a letter from Anna Darwin describing some Darwin family genealogy, and a letter from W. Kellogg to Darwin's widow Mary regarding the moving of remains from Old Laurel Hill cemetery in San Francisco (1947).
- Production date
- 1853-1947.
- Call number
- mssHM 75640-75648
- Provenance
- Gift of Irene Griffin, April 2, 1999.
