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From E. A. Darwin   [15? April 1864]

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Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.

Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15? Apr 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B19–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4482

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  • Wedgwood, who was suffering from terminal cancer (see letter from E.  A.  Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864? ] …
  • 1864] reporting the return of Zoonomia ; by CD’s report of his last sickness on 13 April (see Correspondence vol.  12, Appendix II); and by James Mackintosh Wedgwood and Frances Emma
  • 1864] and n.  6). Erasmus refers to his niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood (whose family nickname was Snow) and to her mother, his cousin’s wife, Fanny, or Frances Emma

From E. A. Darwin   [1863–6?]

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Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1863–6?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4726

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  • Wedgwood relation. CD’s legacies and investments are recorded in his Investment book (Down House MS). CD’s daughter Henrietta Emma Darwin may have visited Erasmus’s residence in London on some of her many trips to London from 1863 to 1865; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records Henrietta travelling to London at least four times in 1863, twelve times in 1864, …
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