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To W. E. Darwin   25 [August 1859]

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Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  25 [Aug 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2483

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  • Darwin’s diary records that the children went to Leith Hill Place, the home of Caroline Sarah Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood III , on 19 August 1859. CD and Emma joined them on 20 August. Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin returned to Down on 25 August 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The case involving the family of Henry Tibbats Stainton was reported in The Times , 11 July 1859, p.  10. CD had suggested that Stainton might assist William when he first began to study Lepidoptera (see Correspondence vol.  5, letter
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