From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
To ? [15 or 22 October 1848]
Summary
Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.
Very unwell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [15 or 22] Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1204 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … r Landsborough today to tell him the dried specimen was just what I wanted if he could procure me some more in spirits. I have been & am very unwell, so will write no more, except to thank you much for all your kindness. Believe me | Yours very truly & obliged | C. Darwin …
From John Higgins 1 March 1848
Summary
Agrees to pay Mr Mason as requested.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1848 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1161 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Higgins, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … r Mason’s request frivolous and unnecessary; I will attend to his wishes by paying him the £5, a year out of your Lady Day Rents instead of at Mich s . which will be £2 10 0 always in advance— there will be no occasion for me keeping any balance in hand. I am | Dear Sir | Your faithful Servant | (Signed) John Higgins C. Darwin …
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Summary
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [1848?]
Summary
[Valediction only.] CD note on verso: Athenaeum/48/p. 839 "E. Forbes on genera being continuous in time––good––fact".
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1145 |
To John Higgins 6 December [1848]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions death of his father and his own inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1211 |
To Robert Ball 25 March [1848]
Summary
Cannot give information about hook. Fuegian women fish without hooks.
Robert Mallet’s suggestion about space for specimens on board men-of-war forwarded to Sir J. Herschel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Ball |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1848] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows' Papers 54.i) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1165 |
To John Higgins 14 June [1848]
Summary
Discusses possible land transactions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 14 June [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1185 |
To John Higgins 28 February [1848]
Summary
Arranges to pay subscription on 15 Feb and 16 Aug as requested by Mr Mason.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1159 |
To Emma Darwin [23 May 1848]
Summary
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [23 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1178 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 13 July [1848]
Summary
Reports on the effect of potato blight in his crop.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 13 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 22 July 1848, p. 491 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189F |
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 Darwin [27–8 May 1848]
Summary
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27–8 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1180 |
To Charles Lyell [21? June 1848]
Summary
Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [21? June 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1181 |
To Charles Lyell [24 September 1848]
Summary
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1848] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1198 |
To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848]
Summary
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [22 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1177 |
To Robert Chambers [14 February – 20 March 1848]
Summary
Thanks RC for information on hand-level; he has recommended it in his "Instructions" ["Geology", Collected papers 1: 227–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | [14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848] |
| Classmark: | Watt Library, Greenock |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1160 |
To John Higgins 6 June [1848]
Summary
Mentions his account; visit to Lincolnshire by his sister [Susan Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 6 June [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1184 |
From William Buckland 15 July [1848]
Summary
Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.
| Author: | William Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1190 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (85) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Gray, J. E. | (5) |
