To C. H. Tindal 29 December 1879
Summary
Thanks for MS as it shows many of Erasmus Darwin’s ideas were formed 20 years before he published Zoonomia. Would like to publish last letter if there is a second edition of his little book. MS will be returned registered post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (19 October 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12375F |
From Robert Christison 4 December 1879
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Robert Christison, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12342 |
From R. W. Dixon [after 20 December 1879]
Summary
Three letters from Erasmus Darwin to Dixon’s great-grandfather, transcribed by Dixon. Enclosure to a missing letter.
| Author: | Robert Walker Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 218: D1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12368F |
From R. W. Dixon 20 December 1879
Summary
RWD has read "with deep interest" Erasmus Darwin. He has copies of four letters from Erasmus Darwin to his great-grandfather, Richard Dixon, and he encloses a copy of the most interesting one.
| Author: | Robert Walker Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 218: D2, D3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12368 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter that your juvenility will never fail you; you’l laugh on to the last, like Pope Alexander, who died laughing; on seeing his tame monkey steal to bedside, and put on the holy Tiara, the triple crown, wh. denotes him king of kings. Now M r . Pain says that he thinks a monkey or a bear, or a goose may govern a kingdom as well, & at a much less expense than any being in Christendom, whether idiot or madman, or in his royal senses; adieu dear Citizen from thy affectionate equal E. Darwin …
To H. E. Litchfield 11 [December 1879]
Summary
Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 11 [Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12353 |
From Emma Nixon 10 December 1879
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Violetta Darwin is near death.
| Author: | Emma Gisborne; Emma Nixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 189–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12348 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dixon, R. W. | (2) |
| Christison, Robert | (1) |
| Gisborne, Emma | (1) |
| Nixon, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Tindal, C. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Dixon, R. W. | (2) |
| Christison, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Gisborne, Emma | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Nixon, Emma | (1) |
| Tindal, C. H. | (1) |
