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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 95)
Summary:

Requests a list of CD’s trust securities; he and Sara have finished Worms; asks what he should do with dividend warrant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96)
Summary:

Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 98)
Summary:

Financial paperwork; pleased at news of Horace and Ida Darwin’s baby, Erasmus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 97)
Summary:

Paperwork relating to 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 99)
Summary:

North East Railway Consols.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105)
Summary:

Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106)
Summary:

Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
Summary:

Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108)
Summary:

Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112)
Summary:

CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114)
Summary:

Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 109)
Summary:

Sends a dividend cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 110)
Summary:

News about his dividends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111)
Summary:

News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 July 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 76)
Summary:

Returns Geikie’s letter; is glad he has accepted settlement of gravel through melting of snow. Is trudging around with hammer and bag with help of Ramsay’s book. Describes visits to Kenilworth and Stratford. Sara consulted a physician. Called on Reginald D. and enjoyed meeting relations and seeing picture of Erasmus. Reginald very taken with George.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 208
Summary:

Send CD a present of a fur coat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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