From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 12
Summary:
Asks CD to send him some books on physiology and natural history from the family library.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 32
Summary:
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 13
Summary:
Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.
Will be home in three weeks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1853
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 13
Summary:
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 93
Summary:
Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 [Oct 1822]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 2
Summary:
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B18
Summary:
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48b
Summary:
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48a, 50
Summary:
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48c
Summary:
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 51
Summary:
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 14
Summary:
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 98: B14–15
Summary:
Writes of "the Dr’s" [Henry Holland’s] mixed reactions to the book.
Adds a personal opinion, "it is the most interesting book I ever read".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 15
Summary:
Found his vessel delayed. Spent an hour or so at the Hunterian Museum, "well worth going to".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1822
Source of text:
DAR 204: 3
Summary:
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B15–16
Summary:
Will be glad to have CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Sept 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 16
Summary:
Describes the lectures at medical school in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 17
Summary:
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 6
Summary:
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
