From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 June 1879
Summary
Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12128F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis’s earlier assessment of Albert Bernhard Frank , see the letter from Francis Darwin, 29 May 1879 . Elizabeth Darwin and Mary Elizabeth Atkin had travelled to Switzerland on 17 June 1879; they returned to Down on 18 July 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Villars-sur-Ollon is a village in the western Swiss Vaud Alps. Thomas Purdie had been demonstrator in chemistry for Edward Frankland at the Royal College of Science at South Kensington from 1875 until 1878 ( Complete dictionary of scientific biography ). Purdie’s wife …
From Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 26 June – 28 September 1874]
Summary
Describes voyage to New Zealand.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 239.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9517F |
From Francis Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [before 4 January 1871]
Summary
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Jan 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7426 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871]
Summary
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053F |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Emma | |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
