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To Emma Darwin   [24 June 1846]

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News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.

Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [24 June 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-982

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  • Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood , CD and Emma’s aunt. Probably a reference to Sarah Wedgwood’s plans to move to Down in 1847. Here she lived the life of a recluse and, according to Henrietta Litchfield , ‘her horse and phaeton seemed to be kept entirely for our service’ ( Emma Darwin ( …

To J. D. Hooker   10 April [1846]

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Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.

Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  10 Apr [1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-973

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  • Elizabeth (Bessy) Wedgwood died on 31 March 1846 at the age of 82. In a letter to Hooker, dated 9 March 1846, John Stevens Henslow wrote: ‘I have been recommending Darwin

To J. D. Hooker   [19 May 1846]

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CD brought some plants in spirits from Tierra del Fuego. Did JDH see them?

Problems of explaining formation of coalfields. Comments on recent work on coal formation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [19 May 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-976

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  • Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. They include Rogers and Rogers 1843 . Horner 1846 , pp.  170–81. Binney 1846 , p.  393. Edward William Binney’s paper was read at a Geological Society meeting on 22 April 1846. CD attended this meeting ( Correspondence vol.  3, Appendix II). Elizabeth
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