From V. H. Darwin 5 June [1879]1
17. North Str | Derby
Th. June 5—
My dear Cousin
I send back the view of Elston, and my own attempt to show it in a better point of view. (The reason they are separate is that mine must go flat, as it is on cardboard, and the old one is more than the regulation width).2
Two little explanations.
One is, that though the old view does not show the stone coigns, they are really there—as I see in the modern drawing I have—and Mr. Wm. Darwin could not have put them in, when he did so much to the house—3
The other is that I have just moved a dormer window from one side of the Hall-door to the other, as the roof wanted the break—
All roughnesses will I hope be improved away by the wood Engraver—
Believe me | yours very affectly. | V. H. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The buildings of England: Nottinghamshire. 2d edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Summary
Sends her drawing of Elston Hall as it was in 1754.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12085
- From
- Violetta Harriot Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Derby
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 171
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12085,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12085.xml