From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B122–3
Summary:
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 105: B57–8
Summary:
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B56
Summary:
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Shaw
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 145
Summary:
At the request of his sister, Marion Bell, he sends a copy of his essay on the nervous system. It contains a view of the development of the animal kingdom in illustration of Charles Bell’s classification of the nerves. Human powers are held to be more dependent upon the structure of the mouth than that of the hand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B55
Summary:
Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 19 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B121
Summary:
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
