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From E. A. Darwin   [20 November 1865?]1

Monday.

Dear Charles

John Brent2 is come & I will send it down by Hope or Effie—3 I enclose the address that you may know where it comes from. I hope your journey has been prosperous & that you wont be frightened at coming again4

E D

Footnotes

1
The year is conjectured on the basis of the publication of J. Brent 1865; the day and month are conjectured on the assumption that the letter was written on the day of CD’s return to Down from London in November 1865 (see nn. 2 and 4, below).
2
Possibly a reference to Village bells, Lady Gwendoline and other poems, by the novelist and antiquarian John Brent (J. Brent 1865). The book was published between 1 and 15 July 1865 (Publishers’ Circular 1865, p. 369).
3
Hope Elizabeth and Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood, the daughters of Frances Emma Elizabeth and Hensleigh Wedgwood, made occasional visits to Down.
4
According to his ‘Journal’ (Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix II), CD ‘staid ten days’ in London with his brother Erasmus, beginning 8 November 1865; however, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that she and CD returned to Down on 20 November.

Bibliography

Brent, John. 1865. Village bells, Lady Gwendoline and other poems. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.

Hopes CD will visit again.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4938
From
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
DAR 105: B39
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4938,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4938.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13

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