To E. A. Wheler 3 May 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
May 3. 1879
My dear Cousin
I return with very sincere thanks all your various precious documents by Rail this day.—1 We leave home on the 6th & I hope then to make a beginning of my Preliminary notice of the life of Dr. D.2
Believe me Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
P.S I have retained the letter from Mrs Nixon3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dowson, John. 1861. Erasmus Darwin: philosopher, poet, and physician. A lecture to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Whitby. London: H. K. Lewis.
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Krause, Ernst. 1879a. Erasmus Darwin, der Großvater und Vorkämpfer Charles Darwin’s: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 397–424.
Summary
Returns documents pertaining to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12029
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Elizabeth Anne Galton/Elizabeth Anne Wheler
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/26)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12029,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12029.xml