From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 93: B1–2 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern 23 Sept [1863] John Scott …
- … From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863] …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD stayed at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, from 3 September to 12 or 13 October 1863. …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD was repeatedly sick in the period between 20 and 23 September 1863. See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 24 September [1863]
Summary
JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.
CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4304 |
From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Summary
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Fox 141) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern Wells [29 Sept 1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863] …
- … treatment on 15 September 1863. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Horace Darwin , who had been ill intermittently during 1863, …
- … Darwin, 19 April 1851 ; Post Office directory of Birmingham 1850 and 1864). This individual has not been identified. In her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin recorded that CD was sick every day from 20 to 23 September, but that he was better over the succeeding five days, while suffering intermittently from flatulence and ‘head swimming’. James Manby Gully , under whose care both CD and Fox had been treated at Great Malvern on previous occasions, had been seriously ill (see Browne 1990 and letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] ). …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 53 Fox 142a) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern Wells [6–27 Sept 1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863] …
- … By Charles and Emma Darwin. ] [Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed. ] [1863. ] Darwin …
- … and the letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] , and by the address. …
- … 1863 , and Appendix IX). None of the replies to the circular mentioned here have been found. Emma refers to Francis Sacheverel Darwin …
To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Innes . Emma Darwin travelled to Malvern, Worcestershire, on 1 September 1863, and rented …
- … Emma Darwin joined her there from London on 3 September 1863 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] ). …
- … Darwin had been ill since 1862, and was tutored privately from October to December 1862 (see letter to G. V. Reed, 12 January 1863 and n. 1). On Horace’s continuing ill health see Emma Darwin’ …
From Edward Levett Darwin 7 September 1863
Summary
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
| Author: | Edward Levett Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4295 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 , and Appendix IX). See also letter …
- … and Emma Darwin. ] [Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed. ] [1863. ] Correspondence : The …
- … Darwin was CD’s first cousin, son of his father’s half-brother, Francis Sacheverel Darwin ( Darwin pedigree ). No other correspondence between CD and Edward Darwin has been found. Emma Darwin had apparently sent for a copy of the fourth, ‘considerably enlarged’ edition of Edward Darwin’s Game preserver’s manual , which was published in 1863 ( …
To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4293 |
To W. D. Fox 4 [September 1863]
Summary
His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.
Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4292 |
From W. D. Fox 7 September [1863]
Summary
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4296 |
To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
To John Price [8 September – 13 October 1863]
Summary
Comments on JP’s work [Old Price’s remains (1863–4)].
Anglo-American relations. Progress of the Civil War.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | [8 Sept – 13 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4286 |
From Louis Agassiz 29 September 1863
Summary
Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".
| Author: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4311 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
From Joanna Baillie Horner 24 September 1863
Summary
News of C. J. F. Bunbury and the Lyells.
| Author: | Joanna Baillie Horner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 269 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4305 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin , and their family had gone to Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, at the beginning of September so that CD could undergo a course of treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). Joanna refers to her father, Leonard, and her unmarried sister, Susan ( Freeman 1978 ). Another sister, Frances, and her husband, Charles James Fox Bunbury , lived at Barton Hall, Great Barton, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk ( Post Office directory of Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk 1865). The Horners had apparently gone to stay at Barton Hall on 18 August 1863 ( …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Darwin, E. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, E. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Horner, J. B. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Price, John | (1) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
