From Francis Darwin to ? 23 August 1878
Summary
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11672 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Unidentified …
- … Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1) Francis Darwin Down 23 Aug 1878 Unidentified …
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin (see n. 5, below). ‘ Aquilegia Brodii ’ is not a species; the name was used jokingly by Emma in reference to an unidentified …
From E. A. Greaves 3 January 1878
Summary
The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin, 31 December 1877 ). The portrait had belonged to Susanna Hadley , an illegitimate daughter of Erasmus Darwin . Susanna had been in charge of a girls’ school at Ashbourne, near Derby, from 1784 until her marriage in 1809 to Henry Hadley , Greaves’s uncle. CD recorded a payment of £50 to Greaves on 2 January 1878 in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS). Greaves sent an unidentified …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Greaves, E. A. | (1) |
| Hadley, E. A. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Greaves, E. A. | (1) |
| Hadley, E. A. | (1) |
