From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley 12 November [1879]
Summary
ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
Date: | 12 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314F |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 January 1839]
Summary
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-482 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 25 May [1839]
Summary
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 25 May [1839] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
From Emma Wedgwood and Louisa Holland to F. E. E. Wedgwood [21 and 24 November 1836]
Summary
Tells of the pleasure that CD’s visit gave the family.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Louisa Holland; Louisa Croft |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | 21 and 24 Nov 1836 |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-324 |
letter | (8) |
Darwin, Emma | (8) |
Wedgwood, Emma | |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Croft, Louisa | (1) |
Holland, Louisa | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (8) |
Wedgwood, Emma | |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Croft, Louisa | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Holland, Louisa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |