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From W. E. Darwin   [16 January 1881]

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Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [16 Jan 1881]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13023F

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  • … at Down after Christmas ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 January 1881] (DAR …
  • … Leonard was ill in London ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 January 1881] (DAR …
  • … 219.1: 140)). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Leonard next visited Down on 5 …

To W. E. Darwin   3 January [1881]

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Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.

Discusses investments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  3 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 170
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12973

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  • … W. E. Darwin, 1 January [1881] and n. 5. Emma Darwin had inherited £1000 from her sister, …
  • … at Down after Christmas ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 January 1881] (DAR …

From W. E. Darwin   30 January [1881]

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Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 87)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13033F

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  • Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield . The Ordnance Survey Office was in Southampton; Netley Hospital was a large military hospital near Southampton. On the Fenian dynamite campaigns, see Kenna 2011 . On the extreme cold and heavy snow in Britain during the third week of January, see, for example, The Times , 17 January 1881, p. 12, and 24 January 1881, p. 10. William served on a relief committee in Southampton ( Southampton Herald , 22 January 1881, p. 4). Elizabeth Darwin . …

To the Darwin children   3 January 1881

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About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.

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:  3 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 169
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12972

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  • … George Howard Darwin Horace Darwin Leonard Darwin William Erasmus Darwin Henrietta Emma
  • Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
  • … Darwin , Leonard Darwin , Horace Darwin , and Henrietta Emma Litchfield . Each daughter …