From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 8 December [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].
Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4355 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From J. B. Innes 17 December [1863]
Summary
Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4357 |
From Emma Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 17 December [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4358 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
From Emma Darwin to George Maw 28 December 1863
Summary
CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360 |
To the Geological Society of London [c. 28 December 1863]
Summary
Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | [c. 28 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/F/1/6 No.2179) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360F |
To Ernst Haeckel 30 December [1863] – 3 January [1864]
Summary
Will be proud to receive EH’s Die Radiolarien [1862].
Health continues very weak.
[P.S. 3 Jan] Has sent EH another letter by mistake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 30 Dec [1863] – 3 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1026/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4361 |
To John Higgins 4 December 1863
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1863 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4361F |
From Hugh Falconer 31 December [1863]
Summary
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4362 |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Maw, George | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
