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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 March 2020, lot 28)
Summary:

Has instructed his publisher to send copies of Erasmus Darwin to herself, her sister Emma Sophia Galton, and their half-cousin, Emma Nixon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Eliza Thomasine (Anne) (Eliza) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 135
Summary:

On behalf of her sister Violetta, who is ill, thanks CD for copy of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23)
Summary:

ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 162–3
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. The refutation of Miss Seward is admirable and conclusive.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Douglas Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 179–80
Summary:

Thanks for book [Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 34
Summary:

Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: A101–2
Summary:

Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;

asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 187–8
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. Has wished that justice be done to Dr Darwin’s originality and his anticipation of some modern scientific theories.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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