From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 147
Summary:
Pleased that Huxley is likely to accept gift of AR’s house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Pleased that Huxley is likely to accept gift of AR’s house.
Huxley has written to accept gift of Rich’s house.
Approves of Lord Derby’s politics.
The Huxleys have visited; CD may come soon.
Looks forward to CD’s visit on 8 Sept.
E. J. Trelawney, the friend of Shelley and Byron, has just died in a nearby village.
Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Has observed earthworms drawing pine needles into their burrows.