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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 30)
Summary:

Suggests investments for CD;

discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;

mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1867
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 31)
Summary:

Suggests his father lend him the money to pay WED’s succession duty and thereby secure a discount.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 26)
Summary:

Thanks CD for £200 and discusses meeting in London at the beginning of December.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 86
Summary:

Crying in babies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 35)
Summary:

Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 87
Summary:

Crying in babies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 82
Summary:

Blushing in boys blind from birth. Has got information from R. H. Blair, the principal of a college for the blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 32)
Summary:

Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 and 8 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34)
Summary:

Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7–15 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 80/4
Summary:

Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 99
Summary:

Describes the action of facial muscles at the onset of crying as observed by Langstaff.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 98
Summary:

Action of facial muscles at onset of crying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 84
Summary:

Gives details of the subjects on whom Langstaff made his observations on crying. Langstaff has not seen the platysma contract under chloroform.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22? Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 83, 80, 80/1
Summary:

Charles Langstaff on action of muscles in crying. He believes the primary object of the contraction of the orbicularis is to protect the eye from blood.

Blushing on the body.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:

A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 March [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[May 1869?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1527
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 100
Summary:

Observations on flies visiting Epipactis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project