Catalogue description Father Daniel

Daniel Moore was born on 28 Jan 1840 and practised as a physician in Hastings. He married (17 Oct 1865) Anna Sarah Miller, who died on 6 Jan 1867, following the birth of a daughter, Annie Harriette. He then married Henrietta Sturge (26 Nov 1868), and had seven more children: Thomas Sturge, Daniel Henry, Henrietta, George Edward, Helen, Joseph Herbert, and Sarah Hannah. In 1871 he moved to a new house "Hastings Lodge" in Upper Norwood, which enabled him to send his sons to Dulwich College and his daughters to Dulwich High School. His medical practice dwindled and he devoted himself increasingly to the education of his children. On the death of his wife's uncle George Sturge in 1888 the Moore family moved into his large house "Woodthorpe", Sydenham Hill Road, where they remained until 1895. Daniel then retired to Torquay, and, following Henrietta's death in December 1903, to "Crom-a-boo", Heavitree, Exeter, where he died on 18 Aug 1904.

The letters contain family news and comments on GEM's letters, and on Principia Ethica ("... the best thing you have done. I would still like to see more mildness in the expression of difference of opinion. I liked your 'Refutation of Idealism' very much").