From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 185
Summary:
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 131
Summary:
Seeks investment advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 132
Summary:
Asks for investment advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 2
Summary:
Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 3
Summary:
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 4
Summary:
Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 17
Summary:
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.
Writes of the benefits of reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 6
Summary:
The new pigeon house is nearly complete.
CD is busy trying all sorts of experiments on salting seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 7
Summary:
Is sorry to hear that WED has been ill.
Discusses pigeons and his pigeon work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 8
Summary:
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 14
Summary:
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 [Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 11
Summary:
Writes about suitable mourning clothes and sale of house [Petleys, after death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood I].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 [Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 12
Summary:
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 187
Summary:
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
