From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1878]1
13 Dec
Dear Charles
I was very glad to hear the interesting bit of good luck that has befallen you. Really Antony Rich deserves well of his country for encouraging science in such a very practical manner2 Pitt—Dizzy & yourself are the only people I recollect to whom fortunes have been left on purely public grounds.3 I wish there had been another 0 for the look of the thing, tho’ I believe Emma thinks you are too rich already. We know better than that. Yours affec. | EAD
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11790
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B104
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11790,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11790.xml
