From G. S. Ffinden to Emma Darwin 24 December 1873
Summary
Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.
| Author: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9189F |
To Down School Board 19 December 1873
Summary
Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9185 |
From Richard Strachey 9 December 1873
Summary
Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.
Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.
| Author: | Richard Strachey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C56–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9176 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
| Strachey, Richard | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
| Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
| Strachey, Richard | (1) |
