From E. A. Darwin 14 November [1880]1
14 Nov
6 Q A. St
Dear Charles
Will you please sign my guarantee.— I had not intended to bother you & yesterday asked William2 but in the mean time the Regr had taken my question if they would accept us as mutually joint Secies for a proposal.3
My pride has had a fall I made the Regr look up the receipt for the sealed Certificates feeling confident there was none & he did find it signed by Cath Wedgwood of Parkfield.4 I never will be cock sure again of anything.
Horace must count Sir Wm Thompson among his lovers for yesterday Dykes, (do you remember him?) came to exhale himself on Horaces charm.5 Some time ago Sir W T told Dykes that when he came to Cambridge he would introduce Horace to him & that was the first he knew of his existence. Accordingly Sir W had Cayley Stokes (Adams?)6 & Horace to dine in Hall with him & then introduced Dykes who was sitting by Horace— The swells talked mathematics without intermission— he thought Cayley was the very dullest man he had ever met in his life & he afterwards told Mrs Adams7 that she really ought to educate him & she said she had done all she could in that way by supplying him with an infinite number of novels.
Yours affec | EAD
Footnotes
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Asks CD to sign his guarantee.
Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12817
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B114
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12817,” accessed on 28 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12817.xml