From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Summary
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
From Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
| Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
| Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6, and Colp 1977 ). Jones may refer to Horace Darwin , whom CD regarded as an invalid (see letter to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Horace was home from school from 22 July to 10 …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Clarke, Benjamin | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Clarke, Benjamin | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
