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From J. M. Herbert   9 October 1881

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Thanks for Earthworms.

Condolences on death of Erasmus.

Author:  John Maurice Herbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 166: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13383

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  • … 4 pleasant days at his Northumberland Parsonage, in the last week in September. With my …
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Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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  • … ‘I find I steadily have a distant prospect of a very quiet parsonage, & I can see it even …
  • … last letter that you still look forward to the horrid little parsonage in the desert. I was …
  • … of a resident curate and the maintenance of a local parsonage. The right to appoint was known as an …
  • … system. The living was comparatively small, and the local parsonage had been sold. In fact, some …
  • … had property of his own in the village, and did not need a parsonage. When he left the village for …
  • … the unsuccessful attempts to arrange the construction of a parsonage, and with Innes’s approval the …