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From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox   [29 September 1863]

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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

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  • Fox, 7 September [1863] . Emma had been unable to locate in the Priory churchyard, Great Malvern, the grave of her daughter Anne Elizabeth (Annie), who died in 1851 (see letter to W.  D.   …
  • Fox, 4 [September 1863] , and letter from W.  D.  Fox, 7 September [1863] ). The reference is to Eliza Partington , the lodging-house keeper who ran Montreal House, where Annie had apparently lodged ( Correspondence vol.  5, letter to E.  A.  Darwin, 19 April 1851 ; …

From Emma Darwin   [22–3 April 1851]

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Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22–3 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1410

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  • 1851] , n.  2. Chloroform was first administered to Emma during the birth of Francis Darwin , 16 August 1848 ( Correspondence vol.  4, letter to J.  D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 , and letter to Francis Boott, 20 August 1848 ). When Leonard Darwin was born, 15 January 1850, CD himself administered chloroform to Emma ( ibid . , letter to W.  D. Fox, [ …
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