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6 letters, and one partial letter, 4 envelopes, and typescript copy of two letters from Darwin to Lyell extracted from Notebook 69, additional listing and photocopies of Darwin letters, probably held elsewhere. Article ''On the Distribution of the Erratic Boulders and on the Contemporaneous Unstratified Deposits of South America'.

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Darwin mentions that he is in the process of completing writing his book, however, he finds this process to be "overwhelming".

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises the letters as: 1) Darwin's theory, pigeons not arboreal, 1860 2) Mull tertiary leaves, 1861 3) Non-arboreal habits of pigeons, March 22 1865 4) Darwin on correlation of growth, June 2 1865 5) Variety of Humming Bird, April 24 1867, Gould on ... of species in Humming Bird 6) Humming Birds, not opposed to Darwin's May 1 1867 7) Applicable to Humming Birds May 17 1867 8) Elephant in ivory of Perigord Cave, June 8th 1867 9)...

Scope and Contents Letters are summarised by Lyell as: 1) Dr Duncan on Bolderberg Flabellum [relating to Bolderberg formation in Northern Belgium] 2) Tropical corals, how far corals can indicate climate 3) Corals in Norway sea 4) 60 new Liassic [Early Jurassic] corals, showing imperfection of record 5) Lonsdale notes and Keeling island [Cocos, Australia] specimens 6) Scleractinia of antigua corals and explanation of Duncan's theory 7) reference to his paper on corals 8) Corals dredged up by the 'Porcupine'...

Scope and Contents The papers are composed of an accumulation of manuscript letters to both Richard Bright and his son James Franck Bright and letters between other correspondents. The letters collected by the daughters of the Bright family include those from Roget, Lord Salisbury, Oscar Wilde, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Fry, and Robert Browning and many other nineteenth century notables. The collection includes a manuscript fragment - or leaf - from the Origin of the...