From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1880]
Summary
News of the opening of the reading room at Down. CD is pleased Innes was interested in his book; both Innes’s facts are new to him.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935F |
From Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin [18 September 1880]
Summary
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12717 |
From W. C. Williamson to Emma Darwin 2 September 1880
Summary
Asks whether CD would object to a deputation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union.
| Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12705 |
From W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin 22 July 1880
Summary
Returns Geikie’s letter; is glad he has accepted settlement of gravel through melting of snow. Is trudging around with hammer and bag with help of Ramsay’s book. Describes visits to Kenilworth and Stratford. Sara consulted a physician. Called on Reginald D. and enjoyed meeting relations and seeing picture of Erasmus. Reginald very taken with George.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12665F |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
To T. H. Farrer 8 October 1880
Summary
Questions the exact location of rooms and trenches at Abinger excavation [for Earthworms].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12743 |
From Anthony Rich 20 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12833 |
From Anthony Rich 7 March 1880
Summary
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12524 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 January [1880]
Summary
Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404F |
From Sophy Wedgwood 15 October [1880]
Summary
On worms and worm-castings.
| Author: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12760 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Sophy, although always known by this name, signed with the initials of her full name, Katherine Elizabeth Sophy Wedgwood . …
- … Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] ). No letter of this date from Lucy Caroline Harrison , Sophy’s sister, has been found. In 1880, Lucy had three children, Geoffrey Richard Harrison , Anne Dorothea Harrison , and Thomas Edmund Harrison . See letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] and n. 4. Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , CD’s sister, had been ill at the start of October (see letter to T. H. Farrer, 1 October 1880 and n. 9). Emma Darwin …
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1880
Summary
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12748 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 [June 1880]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [June 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12624 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 November [1880]
Summary
Asks CD to sign his guarantee.
Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12817 |
To John Fiske 14 May [1880]
Summary
Invites JF to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 14 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8269) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12606 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 December [1880]
Summary
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880F |
Matches: 1 hit
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1880]
Summary
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12514 |
From O. A. Ainslie 23 November 1880
Summary
Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11a (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12842 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood had died on 8 November 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Robert Ainslie was a Methodist minister who had lived in Down at Pond House (later Tromer Lodge) from 1845 to 1858 (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 [May 1858] and n. 5). The house was sold by Ainslie in 1862 and purchased by Elizabeth Wedgwood in 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. B. Innes, 22 December [1862] , and Emma Darwin ( …
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| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Rich, Anthony | (2) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
