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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 April 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 869
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Sends some information about R. W. Darwin’s residence at Elston; does not plan to include a portrait of him.
Asks the acreage of land at Cleatham.
Offers to send a print of the portrait of himself by W. W. Ouless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 175–6
Summary:
Fears he cannot give much information for CD’s book [Erasmus Darwin]. Recounts how his mother’s health was improved by Erasmus Darwin’s treatment. Remembers being attacked as a boy by an angry lady whose beautiful teeth were extracted by Dr Darwin "to cure some nervous spasms".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
