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Cambridge, ii. 260, 261, 263; her 

 political opinions, ii. 274; reading 

 novels, ii. 275, 278, 279, 294; her 

 love for her grandchildren, ii. 276, 

 298; playing in concerted music, 

 ii. 287; her affection for Down, ii. 

 288; her spirit of enjoyment, ii. 307; 

 thinks hunting brutal, ii. 307, 308; 

 her last illness and death, ii. 313 



Letters to Fanny Allen, ii. 182, 

 183, 184, 187, 189, 191, 194, 198, 

 202, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 216; 

 letters to Charles Darwin, ii. 134, 

 136, 173, 174; letters to her son 

 Francis, ii. 237, 262, 263, 280; 

 letter to her son George, ii. 295; 

 letter to her son Horace, ii. 277; 

 letter to Horace and Ida Darwin, ii. 

 250; letters to her son Leonard, ii. 

 181, 217, 218, 222, 223, 241, 252, 

 254, 267, 274, 277, 292, 294, 297; 

 letter to Mrs George Darwin (Maud 

 Dupuy), ii. 266; letter to Mrs 

 Horace Darwin (Ida Farrer), ii. 247; 

 letters to Mrs William Darwin 

 (Sara Sedgwick), ii. 230, 233, 248, 

 270, 304; letter to Dr Robert Dar- 

 win, ii. 3; letters to her son William, 

 ii. 230, 255; letter to Laura Forster, 

 ii. 301 ; letter to Mrs Charles Lang- 

 ton (Charlotte Wedgwood), ii. 38; 

 letters to Mrs Litchfield (Hen- 

 rietta Darwin), ii. 182, 183, 185- 

 188, 192, 197, 205, 206, 215, 225, 

 231, 232, 234, 235, 240, 246, 249, 

 250, 256, 257, 261-268, 271-276, 

 278-287; letter to R. B. Litchfield, 

 ii. 209; letter to Lady Lyell, ii. 177; 

 letters to her mother, i. 194, 195, 

 286; ii. 26, 32; letter to the papers 

 on the trapping of wild animals, ii. 

 179; letters to Margaret Shaen, ii. 

 277, 280, 296; letters to Madame 

 Sismondi (Jessie Allen), i. 179, 205, 

 211, 250, 252, 255, 268, 287, 288; 

 ii. 5, 16, 50, 57, 66, 69, 96, 98; 

 letters to Elizabeth Wedgwood, i. 

 155, 187, 243, 278; ii. 28, 31, 39, 40, 

 65, 188, 204; letter to Frank Wedg- 

 wood, i. 117; letter to Julia Wedg- 

 wood, i. 60; letters to Mrs Hens- 

 loigh Wedgwood (Fanny Mackin- 

 tosh), i. 243. 270, 272, 273-276, 283; 

 ii. 78, 80, 85 



Darwin, Mrs Francis (Amy Ruck): 

 her marriage, ii. 217; her death, ii. 

 225, 255 n. 



Darwin, Mrs Francis (Ellen Words- 

 worth Crofts), her marriage, ii. 

 262 



Darwin, Mrs George (Maud Dupuy), 

 engagement, ii. 265 



Darwin Mrs Horace (Ida Farrer), her 

 marriage, ii. 238 



Darwin, Mrs Leonard (Elizabeth 

 Eraser), her marriage, ii. 260 



Darwin, Mrs Robert Waring (Susan- 

 nah Wedgwood), i. 5, 85; her death, 

 i. 138 



Darwin, Mrs William (Sara Sedg- 

 wick), ii. 192; engagement and 

 marriage, ii. 228, 229; her death, 

 ii. 229 n. 



Darwin, Dr Robert Waring, i. 5, 6, 



60, 116, 284; character of, i. 140; 



annual expenditure of, ii. 60 ; illness, 



ii. 116-118; death of, ii. 119, 120 



Letter to Josiah Wedgwood, ii. 2 



Darwin, Susan: friendship with the 

 Owens, i. 139,226; character, i. 140, 

 141; ii. 184; sightseeing in London, 

 i. 217; scrattling, i. 256, 257; 

 drinking cowslip wine with Allen 

 Wedgwood, ii. 267; at W T ynnstay, 

 i. 283, 284; in tremendous spirits, 

 ii. 117; her death, ii. 183, 184 



Darwin, William Erasmus: birth of, 

 ii. 44, 50; as a child, ii. 59, 60, 67, 

 87; at Rugby, ii. 145, 157, 158; 

 at Cambridge, ii. 166 n., 167; his 

 speech at the Darwin Centenary, ii. 

 167-171; engagement and marriage 

 to Sara Sedgwick, ii. 192, 228-230; 

 riding accident, ii. 228 n. ; account 

 of, by Sir Francis Darwin, ii. 228 n., 

 229 " 



Letters to his mother, ii. 235, 247 ; 

 letter to Anthony Rich, ii. 258 



Davy, Lady, i. 36, 220 n. 



Denman, Lord, i. 156 n., 157, 235 n. 



Denmark, Prince of, i. 187, 190 



Derby, Lady, ii. 260, 311, 312 



Descent of Man, The, Mrs Litchfield 

 works for Charles Darwin on, ii. 196, 

 197; publication of, ii. 202, 203 



Desmodium gyrans, ii. 216 



" Dicky " (the fox terrier), ii. 271, 272, 

 282, 308 



Disraeli, Benjamin. See Beacons- 

 field, Lord 



" Doveleys," i. 43 n., 56, 58, 121 



Down : house bought, ii. 72, 75; de- 

 scription of, ii. 75-78; move to, ii. 

 78; life at, ii. 154, 156, 163-165,298 



Drewe, Charlotte, Frank, and Louisa, 

 i. 81 n., 103, 110, 120 



Drewe, Edward: his Grange estate, 

 i. 3, 80 n., 81, 233, 238, 239; goes 

 to Geneva, i. 183, 184; description 

 of, i. 193; engagement to Adele 



