From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 74
Summary:
Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 78
Summary:
Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 79
Summary:
Asks GHD to look for a life of Sir Henry Rayburn [Raeburn] "who is spoken of as famous and who painted Charles Darwin [1758–1778] when dead". Asks why he painted the corpse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 75
Summary:
Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].
Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
7 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 80
Summary:
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 76
Summary:
Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[11 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 81
Summary:
CD is particularly obliged for the copy of Maria Edgeworth’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 82
Summary:
Sends some queries connected with his writing of the biographical preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
31 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 83
Summary:
Sends a letter [missing] on the chance that GHD might give the writer information about tides.
Rejoices at GHD’s friendship with Sir W. Thomson and grand vein of research he has struck on.
First draft of life of Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] is nearly finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
