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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
2 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 144: 472
Summary:

Encloses list of CD’s publications.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:

CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Nov 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B33
Summary:

Gives Lyell’s report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 105: B31–2
Summary:

Discusses the affairs of the late Edward Evans for whom CD and EAD are trustees.

Has got CD’s [Copley] Medal, "it is rather ugly to look at, & too light to turn into candlesticks".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B37–8
Summary:

Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1863–6?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B34
Summary:

Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B36
Summary:

Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B35
Summary:

Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B39
Summary:

John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.

Hopes CD will visit again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 [Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B119–20
Summary:

Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.

Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B52
Summary:

Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B53–4
Summary:

Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B40–1
Summary:

Division of Catherine’s estate.

Arrangements for EAD’s will.

Wishes CD would pay him another visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B42–3
Summary:

Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.

Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".

Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B44–5
Summary:

Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?

EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.

Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B46–7
Summary:

Disposal of Susan’s effects.

Frank and Henry [Parker] are executors.

EAD is bringing away a large packet of CD’s letters from abroad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B48–51
Summary:

Disposal of Susan’s effects. Legacies to CD’s children. EAD has taken the letters and papers and asked Henry [Parker] to forward the George Richmond pictures of CD and Emma.

Caroline looks "miserably ill".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 19 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B121
Summary:

Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B122–3
Summary:

Will be glad to see her on 4th.

Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B56
Summary:

Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].

Contributor:
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