From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]1
Jessie found the other day that driving in the sun without a parasol made one of her eyes, which is weak, water decidedly, so that she had to wipe it.2
Footnotes
The correspondent is identified as Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s sister, from the handwriting. The date range is conjectured from the likelihood that the content of the scrap related to CD’s work on expression. CD was working on expression with a view to publishing between 1867 and 1872. DAR 195 contains CD’s notes on expression.
Jessie Wedgwood was Elizabeth Wedgwood’s cousin and sister-in-law. CD discussed the watering of eyes in bright light in Expression, p. 171.
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13856
- From
- Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 195.4: 104
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13856,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13856.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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