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DIED.

On the 23rd inst., at Malvern, of fever, Anne Elizabeth Darwin, aged 10 years, eldest daughter of Charles Darwin, Esq., of Down, Kent.¹

¹ Darwin wrote to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, [25 April 1851] asking that the following be published 'in Times & in any other one or two Papers of largest circulation. "At Malvern on the 23^d inst; of Fever, Anne Elizabeth Darwin, aged ten years, eldest daughter of Charles Darwin Es^q. of Down Kent."' See Correspondence, vol. 5, pp. 26-7. See Darwin's reminiscence of Anne Elizabeth, or 'Annie' as she was known by the family, CUL-DAR210.13.40 here.