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From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
From Anthony Rich 20 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12833 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 November [1880]
Summary
Asks CD to sign his guarantee.
Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12817 |
From O. A. Ainslie 23 November 1880
Summary
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 ( …
Author
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rich, Anthony | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rich, Anthony | (1) |
