From Emma Darwin to ? [October 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Oct 1874 – Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13792 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Unidentified …
- … University (bMs 62.10.1) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [Oct 1874 – Apr 1882] Unidentified …
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … unidentified variety of Aquilegia (columbine) growing at Innes’s home in Milton Brodie. See also letter from Emma Darwin …
From J. J. Moulinié 20 October 1869
Summary
Wishes to translate CD’s forthcoming work on man into French.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6950 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … unidentified German paper. The ‘work’ was Descent and Expression. Moulinié had translated Variation into French (Moulinié trans. 1868). According to Emma Darwin’ …
To T. H. Huxley 21 [January 1860]
Summary
Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.
Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2660 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … unidentified ‘Naturalists’. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1860] . Emma Darwin ’ …
To Syms Covington 16 January 1859
Summary
Regrets SC’s increasing deafness, but advises that aurists are humbugs.
Tells of illnesses in family and his own poor health. "I never know 24 hours comfort."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1859 |
| Classmark: | Brian Sirl (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2400 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin had contracted diphtheria in June 1858 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1858] ). Charles Waring Darwin died on 28 June 1858. Elizabeth Darwin . See ‘Journal’ (Appendix II). Several alterations, in an unidentified …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
