To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
From C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 12 April 1868
Summary
Observations on expression in her baby daughter.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6112 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868] …
- … Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood unstated [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 12 April. Charles Langton Massingberd , his wife Harriett, and his daughter, Alice Louisa Langton Massingberd . Elizabeth moved from London to Down in 1868 (see Emma Darwin ( …
To Emma Wedgwood [20 January 1839]
Summary
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-489 |
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
To Emma Wedgwood [31 December 1838 –] 1 January 1839
Summary
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-466 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 29 March 1869
Summary
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6685 |
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 Cicely Mary Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 9 February [1868]
Summary
Too late to observe baby’s tears.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5855 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker to Emma Darwin 24 September [1868]
Summary
Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 229–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6907 |
From Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin [18 September 1880]
Summary
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12717 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 15 September 1871
Summary
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 83–84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7945 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin and Richard Buckley Litchfield on 31 August 1871 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Hooker refers to Thomas Henry Huxley . St George Jackson Mivart attacked CD in his review of Descent in the Quarterly Review ( [Mivart] 1871c ). The anonymous review appeared in July 1871 and was correctly believed by CD to be by Mivart (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 …
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hawkshaw, C. M. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, C. M. | (2) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (12) |
| Wedgwood, Emma |
| Darwin, Emma | (12) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hawkshaw, C. M. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
