To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730– …
- … their friends. London: Studio Vista. Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1848. On the development of the …
- … himself, has been a little sick. Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will …
- … Parker and nephew of CD and Susan. Hensleigh Wedgwood , who was at that time writing on …
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Summary
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
To Emma Darwin [23 May 1848]
Summary
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [23 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1178 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
| letter | (6) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
| Head, E. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Heywood, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Horsman, Edward | (1) |
| Kay, Joseph | (1) |
| King, P. J. L. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Percival, E. F. | (1) |
| Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
| Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
| Powell, Baden | (1) |
| Price, Bonamy | (1) |
| Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
| Senior, N. W. | (1) |
| Verney, Harry | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
