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From Francis Darwin   [before 18 October 1870]

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Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 18 Oct 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7345F

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  • … the letter to Francis Darwin, 18 October [1870] ( Correspondence vol. 18). Robert Burn was …

From Francis Darwin   [after 18 October 1870]

Summary

Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 18 Oct 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7346F

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  • Robert Burn . Although Francis overspent his allowance by a considerable amount, CD had scolded him gently and asked whether he needed more money; he advised Francis to get into the habit of keeping accounts (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter

To Francis Darwin   [after 12 October 1866]

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Instructions on paying a bill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [after 12 Oct 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13793

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  • Robert Burn was Francis’s tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Francis was an undergraduate from 29 September 1866 until April 1870, when he received his BA ( Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge 5: 329, Cambridge University calendar 1870, p.  xxiv; see also Correspondence vol.  13, letter
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1870 (2)