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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Wishes to know veracity of a report of CD’s reactions on seeing certain slides of supposedly organic material from meteorites.
Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.
Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.
Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.
Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.
Sends a dividend cheque.
News about his dividends.
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
Seeks investment advice.
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
Asks for investment advice.
Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.
Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.
Writes of the benefits of reading.
