From Robert Waring Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood II 13 November 1838
Shrewsbury
13 November 1838
Dear Wedgwood
Emma having accepted Charles gives me as great happiness as Jos having married Caroline, and I cannot say more.
On that marriage Bessy1 said she should not have had more pleasure if it had been Victoria, and you may assure her I feel as grateful to her for Emma, as if it had been Martineau herself that Charles had obtained.2 Pray give my Love to Elizabeth, I fear I ought to condole with her, as the loss will be very great.3
ever dear Wedgwood your affectionate Brother | R W Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915.
Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista.
Summary
RWD’s happiness that Emma has accepted CD’s proposal of marriage.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-433
- From
- Robert Waring Darwin
- To
- Josiah Wedgwood, II
- Sent from
- Shrewsbury
- Source of text
- V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 433,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-433.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
