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* direct »Letter 1 — Congreve, Mary to Darwin, C. R., 27 Oct [1821]
Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.
* direct »Letter 2 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., 25 [Oct 1822]
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
* direct »Letter 3 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., 14 Nov 1822
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course. He has now been matriculated.
* direct »Letter 4 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., 8 Dec 1822
Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.
* direct »Letter 5 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., 5 [Mar 1823]
More suggestions for the laboratory, including some experiments.
* direct »Letter 6 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., 18 May 1823
Discusses plans for CD to visit Cambridge.
* direct »Letter 7 — Darwin, E. C. to Darwin, C. R., [June? 1823]
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter". She misses him and the laboratory. Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
* direct »Letter 8 — Warter, J. W. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Dec 1824
Warns CD against idleness.Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace. Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD's pronunciation of "sloth".
* direct »Letter 9 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., [10 Jan 1825?]
Saw a mineral salesman, but he had nothing CD does not already have. EAD has a piece of petrified sponge and some curious coal that John Price pulled out of his fire. Griffith's Animal kingdom [Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom … with additional descriptions of species by Edward Griffith (1827–35)] just being published. He is sure CD would like it.
* direct »Letter 10 — Darwin, E. A. to Darwin, C. R., [17 Jan 1825]
Proposes a dry place for the apparatus for their laboratory and draws a plan for CD's criticism. Price has found black sediment in his tea, which was attracted to a magnet.