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From Erasmus Galton   30 December 1871

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After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.

Author:  Erasmus Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Dec 1871
Classmark:  DAR 165: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8125

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To E. A. Wheler   3 May 1879

Summary

Returns documents pertaining to Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:  3 May 1879
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/26)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12029

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  • … Sophia Galton in 1871 to John Dowson about his lecture on the life of Erasmus Darwin ( …

To E. A. Wheler   26 March 1879

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Thanks for information and stories about Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:  26 Mar 1879
Classmark:  Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11955F

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  • Galton had copied a letter she wrote in 1871 to John Dowson about his lecture on the life of Erasmus

From E. S. Galton   25 March 1879

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Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.

Author:  Emma Sophia Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.14: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11954

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  • Galton “(Grand-daughter to D r . Erasmus Darwin & niece of M rs . Schimmelpenninck) “Feb y 20 th . 1871.   …

To Francis Galton   27 May [1872]

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Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.

Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  27 May [1872]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8354

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  • 1871 (Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/855/83/1). George Snow . CD and Emma Darwin visited their eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin , in Southampton from 8 to 20 June 1872 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter to Francis Galton, …
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