RECORD: Darwin, Leonard. 1929.10.24. This is the manuscript of a sermon written by Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle. CUL-DAR262.6.1. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR262.6 contains letters concerning the sermon read at Darwin's funeral at Westminster Abbey in 1882.

The letter mentioned is in CUL-DAR262.6.2 & the sermon is in CUL-DAR262.6.5-7.


[1]

This is the manuscript of a sermon written by Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, and preached at Westminster Abbey on the Sunday after the death of my father, Charles Darwin. It was sent to me by Mrs Inge, wife of the Dean of St Pauls, in the hope that it would be preserved at Down House. With it is a letter from the Reverend G. E. Goodwin, of St Mathew's

[2]

vicarage, Sparrow's Point, Maryland, USA, Mrs Inge's uncle, and the son of the Bishop of Carlisle.

Leonard Darwin

Oct. 24. 1929


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