“I congratulate you on your being on the road to happiness” Darwin writing to Beddoes in 1794

A talk on Darwin and his connections with friends of the Beddoes and Edgeworth families and Lunar Society members.

For the last 40 years John Beddoes has been collecting information for a biography on Anna Beddoes (née Edgeworth), the wife of Dr Thomas Beddoes, who was a close friend and confidant of Dr Erasmus Darwin. The talk will include a review of over twenty personal letters between the two Doctors and will take a close look at Darwin’s connection with Anna Edgeworth’s  family and friends, and other Lunar Society figures. John lives in Belper, Derbyshire, and at the end of the talk will take a you on quick virtual tour of the County’s Darwin sites. John is a visiting Fellow at De Montfort University.

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