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From E. A. Wheler   18 April 1879

3 Bertie Terrace

18 Apl 1879

My dear Cousin,

I send enclosed which came this morng. from Mrs. Nixon.1 When quite done with, please return it, & I think I should like to have the one from her I sent yesterday, but pray keep them till you have no further use for them2

yours very sincerely | E A Wheler

Lord George Cavendish whom Emma Nixon mentions was Godfather to our Aunt Emma Darwin, who was named Georgiana after him.3 He was therefore a personal friend of Dr. D. He left her & all his Godchildren £100 apiece at his death.

CD annotations

3.1 Lord ... death. 3.3] scored blue crayon
1
Emma Nixon’s letter has not been found.
3
In Erasmus Darwin, p. 53, CD mentioned that Erasmus Darwin was badly injured in an explosion when he and George Augustus Henry Cavendish were playing with gunpowder. CD and Elizabeth Wheler’s aunt was Emma Georgiana Elizabeth Darwin.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12002,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12002