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 J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
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 George Brettingham Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin 22 July 1863
Summary
Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4251 |
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 John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4322 |
From Emily Catherine Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin [6 and 7? January 1866]
Summary
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
| Author: | Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 and 7? Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Wedgwood , known as Elizabeth, was Emma Darwin’s sister and Catherine’s cousin ( Freeman 1978 ). Catherine had been in poor health since at least the time of her marriage to Charles Langton in 1863 ( …
- … 1863] , and Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , p. 272). She had discussed her poor health and inability to pay social visits in a letter to Henrietta Emma …
Document type
| letter | (7) |
Author
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Langton, E. C. | (1) |
| Massingberd, E. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Emma | |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
