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From:
Darwin, Reginald
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
25 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Reginald
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
2 August 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (dealers) (28 March 2019, lot 173)
Summary:
Announces his intention to translate and preface [E. Krause’s] sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life. Asks whether RD has any documents concerning Dr Darwin or letters by him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 146–9
Summary:
Sends Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, some letters, and poems.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 96
Summary:
The "great book" [presumably Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, see Erasmus Darwin, p. iii] arrived safely.
Can RD supply a photograph of [Breadsall] Priory?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 150–1
Summary:
Will try to find an engraving of [Breadsall] Priory.
Offers a photograph of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s house in Derby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 97
Summary:
Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.
Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 21
Summary:
Is glad CD has found interest in "the old book" [Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book].
Discusses Erasmus Darwin and his belongings, which RD has inherited.
Owns a portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219
Summary:
Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.
The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.
Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 152–153
Summary:
Has found a pamphlet of 1780 about Charles Darwin [1758–78].
RD’s sister, Violetta, has found some early verses and a MS by Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 99
Summary:
Research for Erasmus Darwin. CD has always thought there is one "golden rule" for biographers: "not to insert anything which … would interest only the members of the Family".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1879
Source of text:
University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections
Summary:
Sends letters from RD’s father to R. W. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 154–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
2 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 100
Summary:
Leaves home on 6th for a rest.
Will commence writing Erasmus Darwin.
Apologises for keeping RD’s various books for so long a time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
29 May [1879]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (1977); DAR 153: 101
Summary:
Encloses a family document [another letter from F. S. Darwin to R. W. Darwin?].
Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about their grandfather and a highway robber.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 156–7
Summary:
Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].
Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 102
Summary:
CD has corrected the first proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] and so returns RD’s books. CD is disappointed with his work and fears RD will be also.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 158–9
Summary:
Is gratified if he has helped [with Erasmus Darwin].
Thanks for another consignment of family records.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 160–1
Summary:
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 162–3
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. The refutation of Miss Seward is admirable and conclusive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
