Charles Darwin | Carte de visite, signed, with accompanying letter from Margaret Keynes

Charles Darwin

Carte de visite, signed ("Ch. Darwin")

103 x 63mm., by Elliott & Fry, 56 Baker Street, London, [late 1870s], toned, marginal adhesive tape marks

[with:] Margaret Keynes, autograph letter signed, to Sir George Buckston Browne, proposing an alternative date for her and her husband Geoffrey to come for lunch, expressing gladness that he wanted "the Bateson letter and the other things", acknowledging that he attended the same school as Dr Keynes, two pages, 8vo, St John's Wood, London, 23 January 1929, horizontal and vertical folds, adhesive tape to one tear along fold, adhesive tape to upper edge

An attractive carte de visite, signed, of Charles Darwin, with an accompanying letter from his grand-daughter Margaret Keynes (1890-1974) to Sir Buckston Browne (1850-1945), who had bought Darwin's old home. 

Margaret was the daughter of Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), the English barrister and astronomer and son of Charles Darwin. Her husband Geoffrey was the brother of economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). Geoffrey was a British surgeon and bibliographer. Sir George Buckston Browne was a British surgeon and pioneering urologist who in 1927 bought Charles Darwin's former home, Down House, and founded the Buckston Browne Research Farm there in 1931.