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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Jan 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 7
Summary:

Saw a mineral salesman, but he had nothing CD does not already have.

EAD has a piece of petrified sponge and some curious coal that John Price pulled out of his fire.

Griffith’s Animal kingdom [Griffith, Edward, et al. 1827–35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, … with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. 16 vols. London] just being published. He is sure CD would like it.

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