To Emma Wedgwood [30 November – 1 December 1838]
Summary
His search for a London house. He visits the Lyells, who give solemn advice to choose their London acquaintances carefully.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Nov – 1 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-448 |
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Summary
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
To Emma Wedgwood [27 November 1838]
Summary
CD and Erasmus continue to search for a house in central London. They have tea with the Carlyles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-445 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 24 April [1873]
Summary
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8874 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … terminus of the Great Western Railway. The Lyells’ home was at 73 Harley Street ( Post …
To Emma Wedgwood 2 [–3 January 1839]
Summary
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [–3 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-481 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … only about 60 years old. I saw, also the Lyells, who screamed properly at hearing that I …
To Emma Wedgwood [20 January 1839]
Summary
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-489 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … dinner,—namely soup & Asparagus. — The Lyells called on me to day after church; as Lyell …
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ): Lyells corrected pages came when I was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 4 hits
- … sur les Glaciers [Agassiz 1840] —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell …
- … ] all——3 vols.——well abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— …
- … 1841–54]. slightly skimmed Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] …
- … Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. Lyells Elements 5 th . Edit [Lyell …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on Saturday— I have appointed next Monday to call on the Lyells; & mean to try & persuade Dr …
