To E. A. Wheler 26 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for information and stories about Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11955F |
To Francis Galton 22 March 1879
Summary
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11947 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Georgiana Elizabeth Darwin , were Erasmus Darwin’s daughters from his second marriage. CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin , had written to ask Seward to retract some of her statements (see Erasmus Darwin , p. 74). The letter from Erasmus Darwin to Mary Howard , written shortly before their marriage, is published in Erasmus Darwin , pp. 21–4. Letters exchanged by Erasmus and Josiah Wedgwood …
From W. D. Fox 3 March [1879]
Summary
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 172–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , Susan Elizabeth Darwin , and Catherine Langton . Fox probably refers to a photograph of CD taken by Leonard Darwin in 1878 (DAR 225: 119) and to an earlier one taken around 1857 by Maull & Fox (DAR 225: 175; see also Correspondence vol. 8, frontispiece). Narcissus obvallaris (a synonym of N. pseudonarcissus ssp. major ) is the Tenby daffodil. The winter of 1878–9 was one of the coldest on record for England ( Manley 1974 , p. 396); Emma Darwin’ …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Galton, E. A. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Galton, E. A. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
