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To H. E. Litchfield   25 July 1872

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Thanks for her pains over corrections [for Expression].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  25 July 1872
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8427

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  • … According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood and ‘H’, …
  • … Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood , was at Down on 2 August 1872. Emma Darwin recorded in her …
  • Wedgwood’s On the origin of language ( Wedgwood 1866 ) in his discussion of devotion. The phrase ‘do not take your trick’ may allude to card games such as whist in which it is sometimes necessary to lose a trick in order to strengthen your hand (see H.  Jones 1868 , p.  72). The postscript is in Emma Darwin’ …
  • Wedgwood’s A dictionary of English etymology ( Wedgwood 1872 , p.  xlvi), where they are also misquoted (‘nostrils’ for ‘nostril’). Wedgwood 1872  was published in April 1872 ( Publishers’ Circular , 16 April 1872, p.  247). There is an annotated copy of Wedgwood 1872  in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 853). There is no evidence that Erasmus Alvey Darwin visited Down at this time. Ravensbourne in Keston, Kent, was the home of the Bonham-Carter family. ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1872). Emma Darwin

To the Darwin children   16 September 1881

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A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  16 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 183
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13340

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