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From E. A. Wheler   10 January 1880

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Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.

News of Violetta Darwin’s death.

Author:  Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 99: 197–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12413

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From the Darwin children   17 January 1880

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Send CD a present of a fur coat.

Author:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 99: 208
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12428

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From G. H. Darwin   27 July 1880

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Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 July 1880
Classmark:  DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12668

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  • Darwin were attempting to construct a pendulum to measure the lunar disturbance of gravity; the idea for the investigation had come from Thomson (see Nature , 3 November 1881, pp. 20–1, for a description of the construction of the bifilar pendulum; see also Longair 2016 , p. 93). Horace Darwin also lived in Cambridge. Francis Darwin was in Wales ( letter from Francis Darwin, [1 August 1880] ) and Elizabeth Darwin

From T. H. Farrer   9 October 1880

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Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Oct 1880
Classmark:  DAR 164: 101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12748

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  • Darwin probably wrote to Katherine Euphemia (Effie) Farrer about Elizabeth Wedgwood’s ill health (see letter to T. H. Farrer, 1 October 1880 and n. 8). Ida and Horace

From T. H. Farrer   16 June 1872

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Asks CD for seeds of some plants.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 June 1872
Classmark:  DAR 164: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8390

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  • Darwin’s sister, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , was a neighbour of the Darwins in Down; Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood was one of their nieces. Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood (Effie), Hope Wedgwood’s sister, was noted for her singing; in the summer of 1872 their parents, Hensleigh and Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood , were contemplating moving out of London; they settled at Ravensbourne, Kent. Effie married Farrer as his second wife in 1873; Farrer’ s daughter, Emma Cecilia Farrer (Ida), married Horace Darwin in 1880 ( …