Laura Mary Forster
1839–1924
A life-long friend of Henrietta Emma Litchfield, whom she met while staying in Wales in 1865. An aunt of E. M. Forster. Made observations on harvester ants in Algiers for John Traherne Moggridge in 1872. Lent her house to the Darwins in 1879 so that CD could have a complete rest.
Sources
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 December 2018)
L. M. Forster, ‘Journal’, f. 26 (King’s College Cambridge, PP/EMF/22 vol. 3/10)
Freeman 1978
letter to L. M. Forster, 25 June 1879
Moggridge 1873.
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Moggridge, John Traherne. 1873. Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders: notes and observations on their habits and dwellings. London: L. Reeve & Co.
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