From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B35
Summary:
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B39
Summary:
John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.
Hopes CD will visit again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B73
Summary:
Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Sept – 10 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B60–1
Summary:
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B59
Summary:
C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B62–3
Summary:
J. J. Sylvester reports George’s fellowship "the most enviable position on earth".
Charles [Parker?] "appears to be ruined".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B65
Summary:
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B64
Summary:
A parcel of engravings has come; shall EAD send them on?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Nov 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B66
Summary:
Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B67, DAR 166: 234
Summary:
Encloses a letter to which he had replied and saw no need for further attention.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Darwin, E. A.
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- Calvert, Harry1
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- Farrer, T. H.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Heywood, James1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Russell, John1
- Salt, Thomas1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1