From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
To Emma Wedgwood [30 November – 1 December 1838]
Summary
His search for a London house. He visits the Lyells, who give solemn advice to choose their London acquaintances carefully.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [30 Nov – 1 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-448 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 May 1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 December 1838]
Summary
She agrees that London is the place to settle. She is eager to see him and full of plans.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-449 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 16 May [1864]
Summary
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 16 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4497 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
From Emma Wedgwood [23 December 1838]
Summary
Describes the journey home and the long talks on their return. No maid has been found, so he should engage the one she saw, "for ten guineas & tea & sugar a year". She thought CD looked unwell and overtired.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-460 |
From Emma Wedgwood [26 December 1838]
Summary
Responds to his "business letter" about the maids, then chides herself for feeling dull and disagreeable when she has had everything all her life.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-462 |
To Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-463 |
From Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Summary
Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-464 |
From Emma Wedgwood [30 December 1838]
Summary
Seeks to persuade CD to leave town at once, go to Shrewsbury for doctoring and some rest, then come to Maer for more rest, for he has looked "so unwell". She knows it must be hard for him to be unable to do his work.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-465 |
To Emma Wedgwood [31 December 1838 –] 1 January 1839
Summary
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-466 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
From Emma Darwin [c. February 1839]
Summary
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-471 |
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 21 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4722 |
From Emma Darwin to Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter 23 December [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
Date: | 23 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4723 |
To Emma Wedgwood 2 [–3 January 1839]
Summary
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 2 [–3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-481 |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 January 1839]
Summary
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-482 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
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