From Henrietta Emma Darwin [1 August 1863]
Summary
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 189: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260F |
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 Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 115: 215 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [7 Dec 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests that …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863] …
- … D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). See n. …
- … Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Emma Darwin probably refers to the letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 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 Emma Darwin to George Maw 28 December 1863
Summary
CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Summary
CD agrees about reversion.
The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
From Emma Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 17 December [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4358 |
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 Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 55 Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Hartfield [4 May 1863] William Erasmus …
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863] …
- … On Sunday 3 May 1863, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that it had been a ‘ …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins stayed at Leith Hill Place from Wednesday 6 May 1863 …
- … Darwin family’s visits to Hartfield Grove and Leith Hill Place (see nn. 2 and 8, below); the Monday before the Darwin family left Hartfield Grove was 4 May 1863. According to Emma Darwin’ …
- … Darwin, [17 February 1857] and n. 10). Sophy Wedgwood was 21 years old, Margaret 19, and Lucy 16. Emma also refers to Charles Langton , Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , and Charles Langton’s son, Edmund Langton , who was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge ( Freeman 1978 , Darwin pedigree , Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ). In 1863, …
- … Emma and Horace Darwin . Emma apparently refers to the photograph of CD taken by William in April 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9, frontispiece). In 1861, William was studying at Christ’s College, Cambridge ( Alum. Cantab. ), and may have deposited the negative plate with a firm of photographers there. CD wanted a copy of the photograph to send to Roland Trimen (see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] ). …
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From H. E. Darwin to Thomas Warner 14 October [1863]
Summary
On behalf of her father, she asks that his name be put down for James Buckman’s testimonial. His cheque for £2.2.0 is enclosed.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Thomas Warner |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1863] |
| Classmark: | Mrs Carole Cockett (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4320A |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
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 J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 219. 1: 78 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [28 Oct 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863] …
- … to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood arrived on 27 October 1863. The …
- … Darwin, 21 August [1863] , n. 9). CD underwent treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, between 3 September and 12 or 13 October 1863. According to Emma Darwin’ …
- … Emma Darwin’s sister ( Darwin pedigree ). Elizabeth Darwin was William’s sister ( Freeman 1978 ). Elizabeth may have been returning from school; she was sent away to school with Miss Buob at the beginning of the year (see letters from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , 29 October 1862 and [15 April 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 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (66) |
| Darwin, Emma | (18) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
| Scott, John | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
