From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
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 Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [c. June 1823]
Summary
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".
She misses him and the laboratory.
Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. June 1823] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, 18 May 1823 ), and to Kitty Wedgwood , who died in 1823. Maer Hall, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, home of Josiah Wedgwood II . The home of Sarah , Mrs Josiah Wedgwood I , (CD’s grandmother) and her daughters, Catherine (Kitty) and Sarah Elizabeth ( …
- … Elizabeth moved in 1827 to Camp Hill, a house built for her near Maer Hall. In the Autobiography , p. 45, CD remembers observing insects ‘with some little care’ as early as 1819, but gives his second cousin, William Darwin …
From Catherine & Susan Darwin 4 December [1825]
Summary
Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1825] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-18 |
From Caroline, Catherine, and Susan Darwin 20–31 December [1831]
Summary
Family and Shropshire news.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20–31 Dec [1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-153 |
From R. W. Darwin and the Misses Darwin to J. S. Henslow 1 February 1833
Summary
Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-199 |
Document type
| letter | (7) |
Author
| Darwin, Catherine | (7) |
| Langton, Catherine | |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (7) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
