Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
- Plate section
CHAPTER XVII - 1882–1884
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
- Plate section
Summary
After my father's death his children agreed that the following letter should be sent to Mr Anthony Rich.
W. E. Darwin to Anthony Rich.
[May, 1882].My dear Mr Rich,
Since my father's death my brothers and sisters and I have been thinking much over your generous intention of leaving your property to my father, and, as we understood, to us as his heirs. We wish to tell you how truly grateful we feel to you for this emphatic recognition of his services to science and the world. It deeply gratified him, and we never shall forget this. I gather that it was your intention that his death should make no difference in the disposition of your property, but we want you to be assured that we feel that a new state of things has arisen, and one of which you could not calculate the effect until it actually came. No one as long as they live can help acquiring new interests, and it is impossible for you to foresee what may happen in the years I hope you may still have to live.
We, therefore, earnestly beg you to remember that if you should see fit to alter the disposition of your property, we shall never feel that we owe you any less gratitude for your generous intentions towards our dear father; and we ask you to keep this letter, in order that you may always bear in mind that this is our most deliberate request.
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- Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles DarwinA Century of Family Letters, pp. 335 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904