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Woodhouse Hall, Rednal, Shropshire

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A purse and hair in rememberence of us

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  • … Letters from Darwin's girlfriend and her sister and father before and during the voyage. …

Darwin’s first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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  • … was regularly invited to shoot with Fanny’s brothers at Woodhouse, the Mostyn Owen estate in …
  • … at Edinburgh. She soon became one of the main attractions of Woodhouse. The high-spirited, …
  • … she wrote to Darwin, he was postilion to her housemaid, and Woodhouse was The Forest. Fanny’s …
  • … by Darwin’s sister Catherine. After staying a week at Woodhouse in 1826 as company for Fanny and her …
  • … M r  Charles Darwin— ' That summer, while away from Woodhouse, Fanny begged him to send news …
  • … ’ Darwin was still as enraptured as ever by the Owens of Woodhouse, whom he thought of as the ‘idols …
  • … to see him, as Susan Darwin had reported while visiting Woodhouse in early 1835.  Fanny …
  • … in animals . Sarah had also been part of the attraction of Woodhouse for Darwin, but more as a …
  • … used to laugh at me for collecting beetles with such zeal at Woodhouse. Excepting from my continued …

List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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  • … Woodd, C. H. L. (1) Woodhouse, A. J. (1) …

Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…

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  • … one of the daughters of William Mostyn Owen, the squire of Woodhouse, where Darwin had gone hunting …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … my mind, as those which relate to happy old days spent at Woodhouse’ ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, …
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