From L. C. Wedgwood 20 November [1871]
Summary
Displays in turkeys.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7377 |
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [25 April 1870]
Summary
Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7174 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [22 September 1866]
Summary
Quotes Botanical Magazine on Erica massoni. Its branches terminate in large umbels of flowers that are extremely viscous and entrap insects.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9200 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [8 February 1872]
Summary
Describes earthworm experiments. She has measured depth of mould in various locales, e.g., on ridges and furrows of an old ploughed field.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 63: 79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8203 |
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Summary
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 21 January [1872]
Summary
Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8171 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 5 January [1872]
Summary
Asks her to probe worm-holes on grassy slopes with a knitting needle to ascertain whether they come out at right angles to the slope or to the horizon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 331) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8144 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … p. 270). Wedgwood lived with her parents at Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey. …
To Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [before 25 September 1866]
Summary
Asks her to see whether the flowers or leaves of Erica massoni are noted as glutinous in the Botanical Magazine.
Inquires about the pods of peony: are they brilliantly coloured and do birds eat them?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | [before 25 Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add 4251: 336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5203 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DAR 157a: 81), CD noted: ‘Lucy W. case at Leith Hill nothing touches or eats the Pæony …
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [6 June 1864]
Summary
Sends observations on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis requested by CD.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4523 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Lucy Wedgwood at her family’s home at Leith Hill Place in Surrey into his own description …
From L. C. or Margaret Susan Wedgwood to [Emma Darwin?] [May 1865]
Summary
Sends some figures on long- and short-styled primroses for "Uncle Ch".
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [May 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4823 |
| letter | (10) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (7) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, M. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (3) |
| Harrison, L. C. | |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, M. S. | (1) |
Leith
Summary
What to take
Matches: 1 hits
- … A friend from Darwin's time at Edinburgh suggests books and equipment to take on the voyage. …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
Summary
Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the Darwins set off on a round of visits to relatives at Leith Hill and Abinger in Surrey, and then …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
Summary
< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
Matches: 1 hits
- … exhibition, ‘in the possession of Miss Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place’; i.e. Sophy Wedgwood, daughter …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … world of sea creatures he could observe on the beach at Leith. His first paper, in March 1827, …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of fieldwork undertaken in the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
Summary
‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Montague Street in London in March, visited the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place in June, stayed with …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … yards of ground were marked out near the Wedgwoods’ home, Leith Hill Place in Surrey, and CD’s niece …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … William and his wife Sara, and visits to the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place, and the Farrers at …
