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From Erasmus Alvey Darwin   21 [January 1863]

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Will be glad to have CD.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 [Jan 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B15–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3399

From E. A. Darwin to Moncure Daniel Conway   9 November 1863

Summary

CD has been seriously ill. Doubts he will be able to receive a visit.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:  9 Nov 1863
Classmark:  Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4333

From E. A. Darwin   9 November [1863]

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Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.

EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B13–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4334

From E. A. Darwin to M. D. Conway   11 November 1863

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Mrs Darwin has written that CD is no better, and visitors have been forbidden.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:  11 Nov 1863
Classmark:  Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4338

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

From John Crawfurd to E. A. Darwin   7 August 1863

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Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].

Author:  John Crawfurd
Addressee:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:  7 Aug 1863
Classmark:  DAR 161: 237, 237/1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4880

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   11 November [1863]

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CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  11 Nov [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B116–17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4671