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
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They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
Announces his intention to translate and preface [E. Krause’s] sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life. Asks whether RD has any documents concerning Dr Darwin or letters by him.
CD has written to members of the family for Dr Erasmus Darwin materials and letters. Is apprehensive lest his preface and EK’s essay interfere with one another. Will confine himself to ED’s character and letters;
has begun investigating the influence he had on medical practice.
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.