RECORD: Darwin, George Howard. n.d. Letter to William Erasmus Darwin. CUL-DAR210.4.5. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. 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-DAR210.4 contains drafts of Cirripedia and George Darwin's papers.
"Darwin, Margaret Elizabeth, 1890 Mar. 22-1974 Dec. 19. 3d child of Sir George Howard Darwin. CD's granddaughter. 1917 Married Sir Geoffrey Keynes. 4 sons, 1 daughter. 1943 wrote biography of Leonard Darwin, privately printed.
Darwin, William Robert, 1894 Aug. 22 -1970 Dec. 28 (cremated 31 Dec.). 4th child of Sir George Howard D. Married Sarah Monica Slingsby in 1894. CD's grandson. ED: 1894 Aug. 22 "Birth of G's boy". He was ill with jaundice on Sept. 4." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
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Dear W,
These are names & dates.
Margaret Elizabeth Darwin
b. 22 March 1890 at Cambridge
William Robert Darwin
b. 22 August 1894 at Marlboro'
We had a lovely bicycle ride from L.H.P to Gomshall & then from Penshurst & Chiddingstone here— but it has left M. very stiff
Yours
G.H. Darwin
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