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To G. H. Darwin   8 [July 1879]

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Inquires concerning a possibility of searching old deeds about the Darwin family history.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  8 [July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12137

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  • … daughter, Ida Farrer , and CD’s son Horace Darwin (see letter to T. H. Farrer, 27 June [ …

To the Darwin children   21 February 1879

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Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  21 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 153
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11896

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  • Horace Darwin . CD had purchased shares in the Patent Siliceous Stone Company in 1852, and had subsequently made several loans to it, with an initial investment of £501 10 s. (CD’s Investment Book (Down House MS), pp. 59–60). He cancelled the bond in 1864 and then was engaged in a correspondence about paying back the bonded loans, which were never repaid (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter