To W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3157 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … W. E. Darwin, [4 March 1860] ). See letter to John Lubbock, [25 May 1861] and letter to …
- … John Lubbock in May and June of 1861. All pertain to negotiations carried out in connection with William’s appointment as partner in a Southampton bank. Postmarks on envelopes that contained three of the letters, preserved in DAR 210.6, confirm the dating. Lubbock’s ‘friend’ was George Atherley , partner in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton, for which Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, Lubbock & Co . , were the London agents ( Banking almanac 1861). Prior to 1860, …
To William Erasmus Darwin [4 March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [4 Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2675 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Lubbock’s wife, Ellen Frances Lubbock , and to Lubbock’s brother Montagu, who was 18 years old. Emma Darwin’s diary records that she went to London on 24 February 1860. …
- … John Lubbock, 17 December [1859] ). William served in the University Volunteers and was also an officer in the Down Corps ( F. Darwin 1914 , p. 20). On 29 January 1860, …
To W. E. Darwin [26 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3160 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |