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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B88
Summary:

Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.

Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].

Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
[22? Nov 1873]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1)
Summary:

Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James William Colvile
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 24 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 31
Summary:

Describes a seance attended by George Darwin and Myers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[c. 29 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 16
Summary:

Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5)
Summary:

Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project