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From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   1 September [1875?]

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Reports on health [of unidentified woman].

EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  1 Sept [1875?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10146

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B126 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 1 Sept [1875? ] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • … Sarah Wedgwood , CD’s sister. In a letter to Leonard Darwin of 26 October 1875 , Emma

From Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Emma Darwin   [before 3 February 1867?]

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Will be glad to see her on 4th.

Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [before 3 Feb 1867?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B122–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5335

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … 105: B122–3 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated [before 3 Feb 1867? ] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • … and Emma may have intended to visit earlier with Henrietta. Hensleigh Wedgwood’s illness …
  • … and CD and Emma Darwin to London (see n.  3, below), and from Hensleigh Wedgwood’s poor …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   30 [March 1864?]

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Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;

recounts other family news.

Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  30 [Mar 1864?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B118
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4374

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B118 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 30 [Mar 1864? ] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • Wedgwood 1980 , pp.  274, 279). In March 1864 he was in Italy, but he was brought home in early April 1864; he died on 24 June 1864 ( ibid. , pp.  275, 279). According to Emma

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   [before 19 November 1867]

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Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [before 19 Nov 1867]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5334

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B121 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated [before 19 Nov 1867] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • … family of Hensleigh and Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood , who lived at 1 Cumberland Place, …
  • … to 23 November 1867 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Josiah Wedgwood III . Caroline Sarah …
  • Wedgwood III and Erasmus on 19 November 1867 (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)). For more on CD’s and Emma’ …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   24 April [1873]

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Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.

Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].

Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  24 Apr [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8874

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B88 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 24 Apr [1873] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   25 [November 1865]

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Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.

Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  25 [Nov 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B119–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4942

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B119–20 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 25 [Nov 1865] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   9 December [1872]

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Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  9 Dec [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B124–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8666

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B124–5 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 9 Dec [1872] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   11 November [1863]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … DAR 105: B116–17 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 11 Nov [1863] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …

From E. A. Darwin   [15? April 1864]

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Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.

Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15? Apr 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B19–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4482

Matches: 3 hits

  • … II); and by James Mackintosh Wedgwood and Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood’s return to …
  • … cousin’s wife, Fanny, or Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 ). …
  • Wedgwood, who was suffering from terminal cancer (see letter from E.  A.  Darwin to Emma

From E. A. Darwin   26 April 1853

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Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Apr 1853
Classmark:  DAR 262.11: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1516

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 2, letter from Josiah Wedgwood II and Emma Wedgwood to R.  W. Darwin, 15 November 1838 , …
  • … Waring Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood II on the marriage of CD and Emma in 1839 are given in …
  • Emma’ s trust property’. The Newcastle and Carlisle preference shares are listed as CD’s property, but on 1 May 1853 they were transferred to E.  A. Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood

From E. A. Darwin   20 November [1872]

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Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.

Discusses finances.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Nov [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8636

Matches: 3 hits

  • … d. on 20 November 1872, ‘From sale of Etruria’. Jos: Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma’s brother. …
  • … F: Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . Lady Bell: Marion Bell . Henry Holland . Marion Bell’ …
  • … been the property of Josiah Wedgwood II , and from which Emma Darwin (his daughter) had …

From E. A. Darwin   24 August [1865]

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Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Aug [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4885

Matches: 5 hits

  • … rented for the summer of 1865 by the Hensleigh Wedgwood s ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 207). …
  • … to Josiah Wedgwood III , to his wife, Caroline Sarah, who was CD’s sister, and to Emma
  • Emma Darwin and George Howard Darwin had spent some time there in June with some of their Wedgwood
  • … Josiah Wedgwood III, 20 November 1852 and n.  3). CD recorded the 1852 transfer of Emma’s …
  • … Henry Allen Wedgwood, 21 February 1847  and nn.  7 and 9) and in 1852 Emma’s shares were …

From E. A. Darwin   [20 November 1865?]

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John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.

Hopes CD will visit again.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Nov 1865?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4938

Matches: 1 hit

  • … the daughters of Frances Emma Elizabeth and Hensleigh Wedgwood , made occasional visits to …

From E. A. Darwin   12 [September 1871]

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Sees mistake he made on certificates; will make list for future use.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 [Sept 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B78–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7935

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Railway to Erasmus and Josiah Wedgwood III as trustees for Emma Darwin (see letter to E.   …

From Erasmus Alvey Darwin   21 [January 1863]

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Will be glad to have CD.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 [Jan 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B15–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3399

Matches: 2 hits

  • Wedgwood, who had left in November 1862 to spend the winter in Algiers (see the letter from Emma
  • Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) a visit to London ‘for ball at C.P. ’ Cumberland Place was the home of Hensleigh and Frances Wedgwood . …

From E. A. Darwin   19 February [1866]

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Division of Catherine’s estate.

Arrangements for EAD’s will.

Wishes CD would pay him another visit.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B40–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5010

Matches: 1 hit

  • Wedgwood (Elizabeth), who lived at Hartfield, East Sussex. Elizabeth’s aunts, Emma and …

From E. A. Darwin   14 November [1880]

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Asks CD to sign his guarantee.

Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12817

Matches: 1 hit

  • Wedgwood , CD’s aunt, had resided at Parkfield in Staffordshire ( Freeman 1978 ). Horace had stayed at the home of William Thomson in April 1879 ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma

From E. A. Darwin   [1863–6?]

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Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1863–6?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4726

Matches: 1 hit

  • Wedgwood relation. CD’s legacies and investments are recorded in his Investment book (Down House MS). CD’s daughter Henrietta Emma
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