From W. D. Fox 8 March [1856]
Summary
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1646 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [November 1856]
Summary
Writes about suitable mourning clothes and sale of house [Petleys, after death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood I].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2000 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s older sister and CD’s cousin. Emma Darwin recorded in …
- … Howard Darwin having returned home from school (see n. 4, below). Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) …
- … Darwin, 13 [November 1856], n. 7. CD had bought the grey mare in October. A payment of £30 was recorded in his Account book (Down House MS) on 6 October 1856. Sarah Elizabeth ( …
To W. D. Fox 3 October [1856]
Summary
Finds his grief over his daughter Anne’s death still strong.
Is following Lyell’s advice about publishing his species doctrine. It is not to be a sketch, however, but as perfect as his 19 years of work will allow. His work on pigeons has been invaluable on many points. "No subject gives me so much trouble as means of dispersal of terrestrial production in the oceanic islands."
Finds "most remarkable differences" in skeletons of rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1856] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1967 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … February 1857 ). Emma Darwin was in Hartfield, Sussex, where her sisters Sarah Elizabeth ( …
- … addition to Henrietta and Elizabeth, accompanied her. Leonard Darwin was 6 years old. His …
- … Elizabeth) Wedgwood and Charlotte Langton lived at The Ridge and Hartfield Grove, respectively, from 21 February to 1 March 1856 ( Emma Darwin’ …
To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Summary
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin , then at Rugby School. Dated by the reference to the funeral of Sarah Elizabeth ( …
- … Darwin’s diary). These uncles were Emma’s brothers and her cousin, John Allen Wedgwood. Aunt Elizabeth …
- … Elizabeth) Wedgwood. John Lewis was the carpenter and undertaker in Down village. John Innes , perpetual curate of Down. Henry Hemmings , Sarah Morrey , and Martha Morrey . Sarah Wedgwood’s servants, of whom the Darwin …
From George Howard Darwin [28 November 1856]
Summary
Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 2222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003F |
To W. E. Darwin 10 [December 1856]
Summary
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 10 [Dec 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2019 |
To Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood 18 [August 1856 – January 1858]
Summary
Is flattered by a proposal that he undertake some reviewing work, but has many years’ work in prospect on his present book on species and varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 18 [Aug 1856 - Jan 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1810 |
To J. W. Lubbock 18 November [1856]
Summary
Obliged for JWL’s note [missing]. Will forward it to Mr Wedgwood.
Remarks, "it was … blunder of A. Woods about your wanting the Furniture."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1990 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
