From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 24 April [1873]1
Ap. 24th
Dear Emma
Col Lyell2 has just been in to tell me about Lady L and I told him I would let you know. She died this morning at the Gt Western where she had come up to not being able to get into Harley St on account of the house being under repair.3 It was called Gastric Fever but she was able to walk from the train to the hotel so that I had no idea it was so serious— it turned into typhoid & just at last she sank rather suddenly.
Sir C is now in Harley St.
Herbert Spencer was very anxious to know about the state of affairs as he said he was afraid to speak to Huxley lest he should be called to account. He said the article in Edinborgh showed very bad feeling and it is a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read.4
E.D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Baynes, Thomas Spencer.] 1873. [Review of Expression.] Edinburgh Review 137: 492–528.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Wellesley index: The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966–89.
Summary
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8874
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B88
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8874,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8874.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21