From E. A. Darwin [1863–6?]
Summary
Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1863–6?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4726 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood relation. CD’s legacies and investments are recorded in his Investment book (Down House MS). CD’s daughter Henrietta Emma Darwin may have visited Erasmus’s residence in London on some of her many trips to London from 1863 to 1865; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records Henrietta travelling to London at least four times in 1863, twelve times in 1864, …
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864 ? ], in DAR 210.6: 115). Probably a reference to the shop Nash & Lukey , linendrapers, silk merchants, and milliners, which was situated in the High Street, Bromley ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). Frances Wells has not been identified. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood was Emma …
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864–7 ) was published in two parts by Lovell Reeve & Co. of Covent Garden, London. Henrietta Emma Darwin , CD’s nineteen-year-old daughter, had commented that Hooker’s remarks on collecting showed that it led to ‘all sorts of vice’ (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] ). Hooker had started to collect Wedgwood …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
