From C. M. C. Darwin 27 March 1879
Creskeld, | Otley.
March 27th. 1879.
Dear Mr. Darwin,
I so much wish in answer to your letter that I could send you any of Dr. Darwin’s but I do not think we have ever possessed any. they will all be with the other branch of the Family.1 I have great pleasure in lending the two enclosed Photographs, if you can make any use of them in ornamenting the book you name, and I have ordered another view of the North front of the house at Elston of which we beg your acceptance.2 I was there last summer, and it was looking very nice indeed—
My eldest son had last year given him by an old gentleman a portrait of Dr. E. Darwin from the European Magazine engraved 1795—and it appears to be copied from Wright’s picture.3 Would you like to see it? I have placed it opposite his Life in Miss Meteyard’s “Group of Englishmen” which we have—published 1871.4 I dare say you know it—
With kind regards from Mr. Darwin5 and myself. | Believe me | Yrs. sincerely | C. M. C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
King-Hele, Desmond. 1999. Erasmus Darwin. A life of unequalled achievement. London: Giles de la Mare Publishers.
Meteyard, Eliza. 1871. A group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815), being records of the younger Wedgwoods and their friends, embracing the history of the discovery of photography. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Summary
They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11956
- From
- Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Otley
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 136–7
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11956,” accessed on 2 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11956.xml
