From Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 25 April [1851]
Summary
Tells of the burial of Anne.
| Author: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1419 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood [25 April 1851]
Summary
Is glad he returned home to be with Emma, and is grateful to Fanny for following Anne to the grave.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1417 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Anne’s grave in Malvern churchyard in DAR 210.13. The postscript is in Emma Darwin’s hand. …
- … M 310) Charles Robert Darwin Down [25 Apr 1851] Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh/ …
- … Emma is very firm, but is of course repeatedly overwhelmed with grief. I owe it to you that I am here. Dear Fanny I cannot thank you. Sometime I sh d wish to know on which side & part of the Church-Yard, as far as you can describe it, the body of our once joyous child rests. Yours most affectionately | C. Darwin …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [25? April 1851]
Summary
Commiseration on the death of Anne.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25? Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1421 |
From E. A. Darwin [25 April 1851]
Summary
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1418 |
To E. A. Darwin [25 April 1851]
Summary
Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1416 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma is well bodily & very firm, but feels bitterly & God knows we can neither see on any side a gleam of comfort. — Fannys sweetness, firmness, constancy & experience were of inexpressible comfort to me at Malvern, & to the last day of my life it will be a comfort to me to think of the tears she so tenderly wept over our poor dear child, when all was over. My dear Erasmus | Yours affect y | C. Darwin …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
