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From:
Mary Congreve
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1821]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 186
Summary:

Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Jan 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 8
Summary:

Proposes a dry place for the apparatus for their laboratory and draws a plan for CD’s criticism.

Price has found black sediment in his tea, which was attracted to a magnet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Jan 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 9
Summary:

Asks CD to do an experiment for him.

Has found a curious stone in his fire.

Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 10
Summary:

Tells CD a bill is all right. Hopes his father will pay it and a wine merchant’s bill as well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Feb 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 11
Summary:

EAD thinks it a pity if CD does not go to Cambridge, but it will be very pleasant for them to be together at Edinburgh, where they should go as soon as possible and read. EAD is getting "case-hardened" in anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
[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:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 21
Summary:

Shrewsbury news.

Glad he likes Edinburgh.

They have been going to plays performed by a travelling company he knows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec [1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 22
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Jan 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 18
Summary:

A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins’: Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.

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:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 23
Summary:

Family news. Visits to the Owens at Woodhouse and the Parkers at Overton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Marianne Darwin; Marianne Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 26
Summary:

Spark has died. Other family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 19
Summary:

Theatre at Shrewsbury.

Spark’s death.

Harry [Henry Allen] Wedgwood will make the circuit for the first time at the forthcoming assizes.

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:
[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:
Marianne Darwin; Marianne Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 13 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 27
Summary:

Further particulars of Spark’s death.

Contributor:
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From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 20
Summary:

Tells of gay times with guests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 25
Summary:

Writes of Papa’s disapproval of CD’s practice of picking and choosing only lectures he likes to attend and of his early return home.

News of Erasmus, who is visiting sick poor people in the neighbourhood. Other Shrewsbury news.

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:
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