From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1863–6?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B34
Summary:
Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B15–16
Summary:
Will be glad to have CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Crawfurd
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 237, 237/1
Summary:
Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B13–14
Summary:
Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.
EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
9 Nov 1863
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers)
Summary:
CD has been seriously ill. Doubts he will be able to receive a visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
11 Nov 1863
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers)
Summary:
Mrs Darwin has written that CD is no better, and visitors have been forbidden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
