skip to content
Home

Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. E. Darwin   [27 February 1881]1

4 Bryanston St

Sunday

My dear William.

Eras gave me the enclosed yesterday.—2 I suppose that it is worth accepting or selling.— Please to decide which.— What will you do about the Co-Trustee signature? Eras thought that if you sent Probate to Ry Coy they would accept your signature as executor of Jos.; but you will know best. If you accept the shares, I will send as soon as you like cheque for 149.10.0.3 It will be necessary to remember about next January.—

Eras is, I think, steadily, though very slowly improving & now sits up in bed-room in afternoon for some hours— —4 We have seen a multitude of people & I am soon off for the Huxleys5

Ever yours | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The date is established by CD’s visit to London between 24 February and 3 March 1881, and the reference to Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s ill health (see also letter to G. H. Darwin, 27–8 February [1881]). The Sunday between 24 February and 3 March was 27 February.
2
The enclosure has not been found. It possibly related to Emma Darwin’s trust, of which E. A. Darwin was a trustee. The other trustee had been Emma’s recently deceased brother Josiah Wedgwood III, for whom William was executor.
3
Probably the cost of railway shares, since CD mentions the Railway Company.
4
Emma Darwin had first reported that E. A. Darwin was very unwell in her letter to G. H. Darwin of 16 February 1881 (DAR 210.3: 4).

Summary

Discusses some business matters

and E. A. Darwin’s health.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13035
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Erasmus Darwin
Sent from
London, Bryanston St, 4
Source of text
DAR 210.6: 177
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13035,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13035.xml

letter

Darwin Correspondence Project
darwin@lib.cam.ac.uk

© University of Cambridge 2022

Copyright declaration

Privacy policy

Website by Surface Impression

 

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge