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DCP-LETT-11966

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

DCP-LETT-11977

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

DCP-LETT-11982

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

DCP-LETT-11986

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

DCP-LETT-11997

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
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