To Nature [before 27 March 1879]
Summary
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 27 Mar 1879] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8826 |
From C. M. C. Darwin 27 March 1879
Summary
They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
| Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 136–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11956 |
To Reginald Darwin 27 March 1879
Summary
Announces his intention to translate and preface [E. Krause’s] sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life. Asks whether RD has any documents concerning Dr Darwin or letters by him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | Forum Auctions (dealers) (28 March 2019, lot 173) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11957 |
To Ernst Krause 27 March 1879
Summary
CD has written to members of the family for Dr Erasmus Darwin materials and letters. Is apprehensive lest his preface and EK’s essay interfere with one another. Will confine himself to ED’s character and letters;
has begun investigating the influence he had on medical practice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36178) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11958 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. M. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. M. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
