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To W. E. Darwin   13 [June 1862]

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Leonard has scarlet fever; CD is sorry WED is unwell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  13 [June 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3601

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  • … 17 June [1862] ). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records, on 12 June 1862: ‘Lenny came home …
  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), she and Horace Darwin visited Southampton, where William lived, from 3 to 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   [5 April 1875]

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Another message about club elections.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [5 Apr 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9914

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  • … daughter Henrietta Emma Litchfield until 12 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

To W. E. Darwin   13 May [1857]

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Discusses family health and affairs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  13 May [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2091

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  • … until 11 May 1857. Emma and Henrietta Darwin returned to Down on 12 May. Emma Darwin took …

From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin   [13 January 1861]

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Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [13 Jan 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3046F

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), went to London on 10 January 1861, returning to Down on 12  …
  • … from Emma Darwin to W.  E. Darwin, [30 January 1861] (DAR 219.1: 36), [12 February 1861] ( …

To W. E. Darwin   12 October [1861]

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Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.

Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  12 Oct [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3284

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  • … above. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Sowerby stayed until 12 October 1861. He returned …

To W. E. Darwin   [10? September 1862]

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Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [10? Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3704

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William first visited them there on 6 September, and again on 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   [31 May 1862]

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Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.

Has been dissecting Viola flowers.

[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [31 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3580

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), she and Horace visited William in Southampton from 3 to 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   19 February [1881]

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Uncle Erasmus is ill.

Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.

He has signed the note to Higgins.

CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].

Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  19 Feb [1881]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13058

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  • Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Shaen stayed for five days, but the entries appear to be made one week out and incorrectly give the days as 10 to 15 February; Emma also incorrectly recorded that Francis Galton and William Cecil Marshall came to dinner on Saturday 12

To W. E. Darwin   29 [October 1857]

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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

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary). CD recorded in his ‘Journal’ (see Correspondence vol.  6, Appendix II) that he was at Moor Park from 5 to 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   [19 May 1864]

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Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [19 May 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 186
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5333

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  • … from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [17 May 1864] ( Correspondence vol.  12). For CD’s …

To W. E. Darwin   3 May [1864]

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Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  3 May [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 97: A8, A10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4480

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  • … in his letters of 12 May [1864] and 18 May [1864]. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …

To W. E. Darwin   4 [July 1862]

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Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  4 [July 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3641

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  • … 4. Leonard Darwin became ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …

To W. E. Darwin   26 April [1862]

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Thanks WED for eyeglass.

Reports on health of Horace and family matters.

Has finished Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  26 Apr [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3520

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  • Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [13 December 1862] (DAR 219.1: 69), and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to G.  V.  Reed, 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   9 February 1882

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Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  9 Feb 1882
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 185
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13672

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  • Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 10 February [1882]; DAR 210.3: 39). See letter from F. B. Sanborn, 12

To W. E. Darwin   [2–3 September 1862]

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Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].

[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [2–3 Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3673

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William first visited them on 6 September. William’s letter has not been found. The reference has not been traced. Leonard Darwin had been ill with scarlet fever since 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   [27 October 1861]

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Discusses affairs at Down and Southampton.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [27 Oct 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3302

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  • … William (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 12 October [1861] ). Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin …

To W. E. Darwin   9 July [1862]

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Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.

Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  9 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3649

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  • Darwin’s illness (see n.  2, below). Stephen Paul Engleheart was a surgeon in Down ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862); Leonard Darwin had been suffering from scarlet fever since 12 June 1862 ( Emma

From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin   [28 October 1863]

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CD’s health.

Family and local news.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [28 Oct 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 219. 1: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4323F

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  • Darwin, 21 August [1863] , n.  9). CD underwent treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, between 3 September and 12 or 13 October 1863. According to Emma

From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin   [20 May 1864]

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CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [20 May 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 97: A7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3366

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  • 12). The note in DAR 111: A69 on self-pollinated Menyanthes flowers mentions a comment of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s on seeing Menyanthes at Maer, Staffordshire; Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , who lived at Maer until 1847, had recently visited Down (see letter from Emma Darwin

To W. E. Darwin   [25 July 1863]

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Relates events at Down;

asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.

His present hobby-horse is tendrils.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [25 July 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4199

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  • Darwin were pupils at Clapham Grammar School in South London (see DNB s.v. Darwin, Sir George Howard; F.  Darwin 1920 , p.  63; and letter from G.  V.  Reed, 12 January 1863  and nn.  1 and 2). According to Emma
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