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From O. A. Ainslie 23 November 1880
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Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.
Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 11a (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12842 |
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- … Wedgwood had died on 8 November 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Robert Ainslie was a Methodist minister who had lived in Down at Pond House (later Tromer Lodge) from 1845 to 1858 (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 [May 1858] and n. 5). The house was sold by Ainslie in 1862 and purchased by Elizabeth Wedgwood in 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. B. Innes, 22 December [1862] , and Emma Darwin ( …