Darwin, C. R. to Meteyard, Eliza
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Asks her to send some specimens of Dr Erasmus Darwin's handwriting for the Autographic Mirror.
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Down Bromley | Kent
Nov. 16
My dear Madam
The Editor of the Autographic Mirror has applied to me for a specimen of the
handwriting of D
Will you have the kindness to see if you can find such a note among the letters & send it me or even two or three to choose from, & they shall be returned to you if required.
Hoping that you will excuse my giving you this trouble I beg leave to remain | My dear Madam | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
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- f1 4936.f1
See letter from Hermann Kindt, 13 November 1865 and n. 2. - +
- f2 4936.f2
CD had sent Meteyard letters from his paternal grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, to his maternal grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood I, for use in Meteyard 1865--6 (see letter from Eliza Meteyard, 25 April 1865 and n. 4, and Supplement, letter to Hurst and Blackett, 15 November [1863] and n. 3). The letter from Erasmus Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood I, 27 April 1766, was reproduced in the Autographic Mirror (L'Autograph Cosmopolite); this letter is quoted in Meteyard 1865--6, 1: 436.