From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B53–4
Summary:
Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B40–1
Summary:
Division of Catherine’s estate.
Arrangements for EAD’s will.
Wishes CD would pay him another visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B52
Summary:
Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B42–3
Summary:
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B44–5
Summary:
Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?
EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.
Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B46–7
Summary:
Disposal of Susan’s effects.
Frank and Henry [Parker] are executors.
EAD is bringing away a large packet of CD’s letters from abroad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B48–51
Summary:
Disposal of Susan’s effects. Legacies to CD’s children. EAD has taken the letters and papers and asked Henry [Parker] to forward the George Richmond pictures of CD and Emma.
Caroline looks "miserably ill".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
