From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 1 September [1875?]
Summary
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10146 |
From Emma Darwin to Ernst Haeckel 22 September [1876]
Summary
Arranges for EH’s visit to Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 41 [9894]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10614 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875]
Summary
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10732 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma and/or Charles Darwin c. 20–5 September 1877
Summary
Description of their English dinner companions at a foreign hotel.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | c. 20-25 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146F |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 26 October [1877]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209F |
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
From Ellen Harrison to Emma Darwin [January 1878]
Summary
On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.
| Author: | Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11304 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
From Emma Darwin to T. W. Higginson 19 May [1878]
Summary
CD will be glad to see TWH on Friday next, and invites him to stay the night.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Date: | 19 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 201) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11516F |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
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 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 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 |
From Emma Darwin to Nicolai Mengden 8 April 1879
Summary
Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | Dr Mirko Majer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11981 |
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 G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [30 April 1879]
Summary
Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12102 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 March 1849]
Summary
The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
Family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1233 |
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 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 |
| letter | (190) |
| Darwin, Emma | (85) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (85) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (105) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (105) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Fox, W. D. | (6) |
| 1836 | (4) |
| 1838 | (16) |
| 1839 | (11) |
| 1840 | (2) |
| 1841 | (2) |
| 1842 | (3) |
| 1843 | (1) |
| 1844 | (3) |
| 1845 | (2) |
| 1846 | (2) |
| 1847 | (1) |
| 1848 | (6) |
| 1849 | (1) |
| 1851 | (14) |
| 1858 | (2) |
| 1861 | (2) |
| 1862 | (3) |
| 1863 | (24) |
| 1864 | (16) |
| 1865 | (5) |
| 1866 | (2) |
| 1867 | (7) |
| 1868 | (7) |
| 1869 | (1) |
| 1870 | (1) |
| 1871 | (13) |
| 1872 | (5) |
| 1873 | (5) |
| 1874 | (7) |
| 1875 | (5) |
| 1876 | (1) |
| 1877 | (3) |
| 1878 | (2) |
| 1879 | (4) |
| 1880 | (4) |
| 1881 | (1) |
| 1882 | (2) |
