From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [25 April 1851]
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1420 |
From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [early December 1837?]
Summary
Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.
Advice on a medicine CD is taking.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [early Dec 1837?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-390 |
From Susan and Catherine Darwin [22 July 1840]
Summary
Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 July 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-575 |
From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [1848?]
Summary
[Valediction only.] CD note on verso: Athenaeum/48/p. 839 "E. Forbes on genera being continuous in time––good––fact".
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1848?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1145 |
From Susan Darwin [c. 24 October 1839]
Summary
Gives some information on Darwin family history.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 24 Oct 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 25 (on display at Down House in 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-472 |
From Susan Darwin 16 February 1835
Summary
Met Capt. Harding who said FitzRoy was promoted to Post-Captain.
News of family and friends. Forthcoming marriages of Robert Wedgwood and Tom Eyton.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 18–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-268 |
From Susan Darwin 12 February 1836
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 97(ser. 2): 30–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-297 |
From Susan Darwin [23] May 1834
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23] May 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-246 |
From Susan Darwin 3–6 March 1833
Summary
Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;
SD brings family news up to date.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 & 6 Mar 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-200 |
From Susan Darwin 12[–28] February 1834
Summary
Writes on CD’s 25th birthday.
Points out "errors in orthography" in his journal.
News of family and friends, visits, and other social events.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12[–28] Feb 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-237 |
From Susan Darwin [27 March 1826]
Summary
Writes of Papa’s disapproval of CD’s practice of picking and choosing only lectures he likes to attend and of his early return home.
News of Erasmus, who is visiting sick poor people in the neighbourhood. Other Shrewsbury news.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Mar 1826] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-29 |
From Susan Darwin [24] November 1834
Summary
The Langtons will go to Madeira for the winter. E. A. Darwin and the Hensleigh Wedgwoods enjoyed a stay in Cambridge, where they saw Professors Whewell and Sedgwick. Colonel Leighton has died. The King has dismissed the Whig Ministry; Wellington is Premier, and the country is in a strange state.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24] Nov 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-264 |
From Susan Darwin 22 November 1835
Summary
Some of CD’s letters were read at Geological Society in London. Professor Sedgwick says of CD, "doing admirably … collection above all praise … will have a great name among the Naturalists of Europe".
Erasmus has taken office of Clerk to a Government Commissioner. Other family news.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-288 |
From Susan Darwin 15[–18] August 1832
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15[–18] Aug 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-180 |
From Susan Darwin 12–18 November 1832
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 & 18 Nov 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-191 |
From Susan Darwin 22–31 July 1833
Summary
News of family and friends after skipping June letter: Osmaston and the Foxes, five weeks in London, the Langtons in Shropshire, Fanny Biddulph and daughter, R. W. Darwin, and Charles Hughes.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 & 31 July 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-211 |
From Susan Darwin 15 October 1833
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Oct 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-219 |
From Susan Darwin 12 May [– 2 June] 1832
Summary
News from Maer and Shrewsbury of family, friends, and reports of reactions to CD’s first letters.
Sedgwick suggests he look for fossils in gravel banks of rivers.
Fanny Owen is married to R. M. Biddulph. Reform Bill prospects.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May [– 2 June] 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-170 |
From Susan Darwin 12 February [– 3 March] 1832
Summary
Chronicles the events of February, principally of the family and of a few friends: engagements, marriages, deaths, some visits.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [– 3 Mar] 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-160 |
From Caroline & Susan Darwin 2 [January 1826]
Summary
A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins’: Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Jan 1826] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-19 |
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Darwin, S. E. | |
Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, S. E. | (22) |
Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |