To Susan Darwin [1 April 1838]
Summary
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-407 |
To Susan Darwin [26 April 1838]
Summary
Thanks for ham and corrections in spelling. Gives account of his social activities in past week.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-410 |
To Susan Darwin [15 May 1838]
Summary
Recounts dinner at Erasmus’ house with Harriet Martineau and others, and a visit to Cambridge to stay with Henslow and meet old friends again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [15 May 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-413 |
From Emma and Elizabeth Wedgwood to Catherine Darwin [13 November 1838]
Summary
Hopes the Darwins in Shrewsbury will help her convince CD that he must not hurry their marriage too greatly. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] adds a postscript to the same effect.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-434 |
From Robert Waring Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood II 13 November 1838
Summary
RWD’s happiness that Emma has accepted CD’s proposal of marriage.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1838 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-433 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and Emma to R. W. Darwin, 15 November 1838). Emma and Elizabeth were the only unmarried …
- … Elizabeth alone with the task of nursing the ailing Bessy Wedgwood. See Emma Darwin (1915) …
- … Elizabeth (Bessy) Wedgwood, Mrs Josiah Wedgwood II . R. W. Darwin’s animosity towards …
- … Elizabeth, I fear I ought to condole with her, as the loss will be very great. ever dear Wedgwood your affectionate Brother | R W Darwin …
To Emma Wedgwood [14 November 1838]
Summary
In his first letter after their engagement, CD reports on the happy reception of the news by his family. He hopes she will not find life with him solitary and dull after the lively social life of Maer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-437 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin I would tear this letter up & write it again, for it is a very silly one, but I cant write a better one. — Since writing the former part, the Post has brought in your own dear note to Katty. You tell me to be a good boy, & so I must be,—but let me earnestly beg of you not to make up your mind, in a hurry. — You say truly Elizabeth …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, II | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
