From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
From C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 12 April 1868
Summary
Observations on expression in her baby daughter.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6112 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
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 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 25 May [1839]
Summary
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 25 May [1839] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512 |
From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley 12 November [1879]
Summary
ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314F |
To T. H. Huxley 10 December [1875]
Summary
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10292 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868] …
- … Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood unstated [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 12 April. Charles Langton Massingberd , his wife Harriett, and his daughter, Alice Louisa Langton Massingberd . Elizabeth moved from London to Down in 1868 (see Emma Darwin ( …
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1870?]
Summary
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1870?] |
| Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127A |
From Robert Waring Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood II 13 November 1838
Summary
RWD’s happiness that Emma has accepted CD’s proposal of marriage.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1838 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-433 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 10 April 1875
Summary
Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9922A |
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1857]
Summary
Independence of variation from climate shown by several plant genera; CD asks for confirmation.
Progressing with book [Natural selection].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2073 |
To W. E. Darwin 13 [June 1862]
Summary
Leonard has scarlet fever; CD is sorry WED is unwell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3601 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 April 1875]
Summary
Another message about club elections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914 |
From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … s manservant ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 12 November [1876] (DAR 239.23: …
- … Emma Darwin stayed with William until Wednesday 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). There were three Thursdays between 4 and 24 July, but given William’s own recent absence, this letter could not have been written on the first Thursday, which leaves 12 …
To T. H. Huxley 21 May 1875
Summary
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9986 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1875]
Summary
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 382–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9905 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1870
Summary
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7197 |
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