RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1873.01.28. Postcard to Moncure Conway. Carroll6. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Photographed by Angus Carroll. Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2024. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with the kind permission of Angus Carroll and William Huxley Darwin.
"Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907. American Unitarian clergyman. Abolitionist. 1863-84 Minister South Place Chapel, Finsbury, London. 1864 C abandoned theism upon the death of one of his sons. C and the congregation left fellowship with the Unitarian Church. South Place Chapel eventually became South Place Ethical Society. 1873 Jan. 24 Visited Down House. ED's dairy. 1873 Sent Col. T.W. Higginson's Collected essays to CD. Recollection of CD in 1873 in Autobiography (F2098), transcribed in Darwin Online." van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.
This post card thanks Conway for sending a copy of T. W. Higginson, 1863. Out-door papers. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Darwin's copy is in the Darwin Library-Down. See Darwin to T. W. Higginson 27 February [1873] Correspondence vol. 21. The postcard is not in Darwin's handwriting.
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POST CARD
THE ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.
TO Moncure Conway Esq
51 Notting Hill Square
London W
[postmarked: 28 Jan. 1873]
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Many thanks for the book kindly sent.
C. D.
Down
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