To Emma Darwin [25 April 1858]
Summary
Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.
Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.
Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [25 Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2413 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [24 October 1836]
Summary
They are impatient for CD’s arrival.
EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".
CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | [24 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-315 |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [28 October 1836]
Summary
CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | [28 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-316 |
From Emma Darwin [June 1861]
Summary
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3169 |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [17 December 1836]
Summary
The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | [17 Dec 1836] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-328 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to Emma Darwin [January 1862]
Summary
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3368 |
From Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton 28 June [1862]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
Date: | 28 June [1862] |
Classmark: | James G. Zimmer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3626 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 8 August [1862]
Summary
WED thinks Bournemouth a suitable holiday destination for ED and CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674F |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [4 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
To Emma Wedgwood [7 August 1838]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-423 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin 22 July 1863
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4251 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4322 |
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 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
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Darwin, Emma | (85) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (85) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Darwin, E. A. | (8) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Darwin, Emma | (105) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (105) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Fox, W. D. | (6) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
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