To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
From Emma Darwin to G. S. Ffinden [22? November 1873]
Summary
Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Date: | [22? Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9121F |
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 |
To John Lubbock 8 April 1875
Summary
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9920 |
To Down School Board 16 November 1874
Summary
Must resign because of his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9720 |
Forrest, G. E. (1827–94)
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- … Down school board, 1876; chairman, 1880. At Gorringes, a house in Down, 1881. Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/150/41/2), 1881 (RG11/855/93/21) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 November 2020) letter …
To J. B. Innes 10 May [1875]
Summary
On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.
Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 10 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9975 |
From E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin [c. 29 November 1873]
Summary
Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8700 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875]
Summary
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10732 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
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From John Lubbock 5 April [1875]
Summary
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914F |
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- … Down. CD had supported the committees of the church in Down for many years, and had assumed more responsibilities in the period before Ffinden’s appointment, when the curates appointed to replace the absentee vicar, John Brodie Innes , had proved incompetent (see Moore 1985 and White 2010 ). In 1873, the Darwins and the Lubbocks were involved in a dispute with Ffinden over the use of the Down schoolroom as a winter reading room; see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Down School Board, [ …
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
| Down School Board | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
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