From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 136–7
Summary:
They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 138–41
Summary:
Answers CD’s query about Robert Darwin of Lincoln’s Inn.
Sends an introduction for Leonard Darwin to their tenants at Elston Hall.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 142–3
Summary:
Thanks CD for offer of his portrait.
Suggests a solicitor who has Darwin papers and who may have information about Cleatham.
Describes her portrait of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 144–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:
Can CMCD provide a photograph of Elston, the birthplace of Erasmus Darwin, with permission to have it reproduced in Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:
Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.
His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.
Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Sends some information about R. W. Darwin’s residence at Elston; does not plan to include a portrait of him.
Asks the acreage of land at Cleatham.
Offers to send a print of the portrait of himself by W. W. Ouless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project