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From E. A. Wheler 10 January 1880
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 |
From the Darwin children 17 January 1880
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 27 July 1880
Summary
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
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 16 June 1872
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 ( …
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letter | (5) |
Author
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |