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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 April 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 869
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Fears he cannot give much information for CD’s book [Erasmus Darwin]. Recounts how his mother’s health was improved by Erasmus Darwin’s treatment. Remembers being attacked as a boy by an angry lady whose beautiful teeth were extracted by Dr Darwin "to cure some nervous spasms".
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.