From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870–81]
Source of text:
DAR 105: 111
Summary:
Share dealings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B74
Summary:
"Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words." Reports on stock just received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B69–70
Summary:
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B71–2
Summary:
Confirms number of shares.
Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[after 29 July 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 5
Summary:
Asks [EAD] to get signatures as opportunity offers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 27
Summary:
Wants to sell some shares held in trust by EAD and Josiah Wedgwood [III].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B76–7
Summary:
Writes to check on stock certificates received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B78–9
Summary:
Sees mistake he made on certificates; will make list for future use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B80
Summary:
Location of stock certificates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B75
Summary:
Georgina [Tollet?] is eager to see a copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B81
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.
Discusses finances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B124–5
Summary:
Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B84–5
Summary:
Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B86–7
Summary:
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B88
Summary:
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: B1–3
Summary:
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B90–1
Summary:
EAD sees advantages to Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B93
Summary:
George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [Mar 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B92
Summary:
Reports the balloting [for Henry Parker at the Athenaeum?] went off just right.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
