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To Gustaf Retzius   2 October 1879

Summary

CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:  2 Oct 1879
Classmark:  Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12245A

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Ann Scott and her sister, Sarah Lucas , and her daughter Susan Fisher Scott visited Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood

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

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  • Emma Galton had mentioned the copy of Anna Seward ’s life of Erasmus Darwin ( Seward 1804 ) that had been annotated by Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848) . CD’s sister was Caroline Sarah Wedgwood . …

To Francis Galton   8 June [1879]

Summary

Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  8 June [1879]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12095

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  • Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood III at Leith Hill Place, Surrey, from 21 to 26 May 1879 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). No letter mentioning a mysterious visitor has been found, but the topic may have been discussed when Galton visited Down on 26 April 1879 ( Emma Darwin’ …

To E. P. Wright   28 February [1879]

Summary

Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Perceval Wright
Date:  28 Feb [1879]
Classmark:  Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11908

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  • Darwin’s house in London from 27 February to 5 March 1879 on account of ‘Elizabeth’s illness’ (Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma’ …

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

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  • 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