List of subscribers to the Darwin Memorial Fund enlarged from the printed edition : manuscript, [after 1882]

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List of subscribers to the Darwin Memorial Fund enlarged from the printed edition : manuscript, [after 1882]

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List of contributors to the fund used to erect a statue of Charles Darwin, arranged alphabetically; an autograph letter, signed, from William Erasmus Darwin to Wendell Garrison, dated 12 May 1884, concerning a woodcut portrait of Charles Darwin (pasted in, f. 66r); and an autograph letter, signed, from Francis Darwin, presumably to Garrison, dated 27 Apr. 1885, concerning engravings.

1 v. (67 leaves) ; 26 cm.

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