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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 95)
Summary:

Requests a list of CD’s trust securities; he and Sara have finished Worms; asks what he should do with dividend warrant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96)
Summary:

Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 98)
Summary:

Financial paperwork; pleased at news of Horace and Ida Darwin’s baby, Erasmus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 97)
Summary:

Paperwork relating to 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
20 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR (CD library— Index Kewensis tom. 1)
Summary:

Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 99)
Summary:

North East Railway Consols.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105)
Summary:

Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
8 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 60
Summary:

Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112)
Summary:

CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106)
Summary:

Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
Summary:

Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas George Bonney
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 247
Summary:

Wishes to know veracity of a report of CD’s reactions on seeing certain slides of supposedly organic material from meteorites.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108)
Summary:

Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 185
Summary:

Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114)
Summary:

Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 109)
Summary:

Sends a dividend cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 110)
Summary:

News about his dividends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111)
Summary:

News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project