To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [October 1857]
Summary
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2147 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to W. E. Darwin, [November 1857] . Emma Darwin recorded a trip to London in her diary on 29 and 30 October 1857. Georgina Tollet and her sisters were some of Emma Darwin’s oldest friends, the Tollet family having been neighbours of the Wedgwoods in Staffordshire. Henrietta Darwin returned from a ten-week residence at Moor Park, her second stay at Edward Wickstead Lane’ …
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
| Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
To E. W. Lane 23 June 1873
Summary
Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Wickstead Lane |
| Date: | 23 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.429) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8946 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … E. W. Lane 1873 ). CD had attended water spas periodically between 1849 and 1864 (see Browne 1990 ). He stayed at Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Moor Park in Farnham, Surrey, on numerous occasions between 1857 and 1859 (see Correspondence vols. 6 and 7 and Browne 2002 , pp. 63–72). His last visit to a spa was at Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, during a period of severe illness in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To W. D. Fox [12 February 1859]
Summary
Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.
The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.
His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [12 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2412 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Lane in 1858, relating to his alleged adultery (see letters to W. D. Fox, 24 June [1858] and 27 June [1858] ). Lane took over Sudbrook Park in Richmond, Surrey, in 1860 ( Metcalfe 1906 , p. 56). Charlotte Langton was Emma Darwin’s sister. She and her husband Charles lived at Hartfield Lodge, Hartfield, Sussex. Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill for much of January ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to W. E. …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Addressee
| Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Drysdale, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lane, E. W. | (1) |
| Pew, Elizabeth | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Drysdale, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
