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DCP-LETT-9122

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
[after 29 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2)
Summary:

CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9121F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
[22? Nov 1873]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1)
Summary:

Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13772G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Dec [1873-5]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2)
Summary:

Requests hydrated magnesia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
19 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/4)
Summary:

Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9189F

From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5)
Summary:

Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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