To E. A. Wheler [before 12 November 1879]1
⟨text excised⟩ told the publisher to send copies to you & to your sister, also to Mrs Nixon.2
⟨text excised⟩
Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. S. Galton, 12 November 1879 (Correspondence vol. 27). The fragment is an autograph from an album with some text on the reverse; it is accompanied by a letter from Wheler explaining that she had been looking over some letters sent to her by CD when he was working on Erasmus Darwin and was sending her correspondent an autograph from one of them.
Wheler’s sister was Emma Sophia Galton; Emma Nixon was their cousin.
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Summary
Has instructed his publisher to send copies of Erasmus Darwin to herself, her sister Emma Sophia Galton, and their half-cousin, Emma Nixon.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12283F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Elizabeth Anne Galton/Elizabeth Anne Wheler
- Source of text
- Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 March 2020, lot 28)
- Physical description
- LS inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12283F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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