To Katharine Murray Lyell 26 January [1856]
Summary
Suggests that J. E. Gray and/or G. R. Waterhouse might be willing to set her butterfly collection. Recommends that her children should collect their own butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.124) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1827 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
To George Varenne Reed 8 September [1856]
Summary
George is not so low at school as CD anticipated. He keeps at the top of his class, thanks to GVR’s labours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2139 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary for 5 September 1856 that reads: ‘G. came from school the boys meet him at the Crystal Palace’. George Howard Darwin came home on 5 September and returned to Clapham Grammar School on 8 September ( Emma Darwin’s diary). George Varenne Reed had been George Darwin’s tutor before he entered Clapham School. CD later sent Francis, Leonard, …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
| Reed, G. V. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
| Reed, G. V. | (1) |
