To W. E. Darwin 14 [March 1859]
Summary
Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2431 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 April [1859]
Summary
Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2446 |
To W. E. Darwin 7 July [1859]
Summary
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary records that Erasmus Alvey Darwin , Susan Elizabeth Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood arrived on 16 July 1859. Charlotte and Charles Langton are not mentioned in July, but visited from 31 August to 6 September. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, George Howard Darwin returned from the home of the Langtons, in Hartfield, on 7 July 1859. The wallpaper was for the new drawing room of Down House. CD was trying to sell the horse he had only just bought for William. See letter …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Addressee
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
