From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin 31 December 1877
14 Pittville Parade | Cheltenham
Decr. 31st. 1877
Dear Sir,
I feel extremely obliged to your father, for his very handsome offer for the portrait,1 and if on inspection he thinks £50 too much I shall be willing to reduce it; at the same time I believe it to be valuable not only on account of the work, but being the likeness of a great man, one who lived before his time; and also with its relationship were I rich, it would have given me great pleasure to have sent it for yr. Father’s acceptance as a New-Year’s Gift. Be so good as to ask Mr. Myers to see it packed wh. can be done here, as I shall like to see it snugly packed—2 I fancy that it will require varnishing, and then it will look quite new— I think the canvass is in good order.
With many thanks I am, dear Sir, | Your’s very truly | Elizth. A: Greaves
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Keynes, Milo. 1994. Portraits of Dr Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S., by Joseph Wright, James Rawlinson and William Coffee. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 48: 69–84.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11299
- From
- Elizabeth Anne Hadley/Elizabeth Anne Greaves
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Cheltenham
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 219
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11299,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11299.xml