From H. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin [March 1871]
Summary
Possible quotations about shame for CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605G |
DCP-LETT-7920
| Author: | Margaret Emily Gaskell |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [Sept 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7920 |
From H. E. Litchfield [13 November 1871]
Summary
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054F |
From H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8088F |
From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871]
Summary
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield Bournemouth 21 Mar [1871] Charles Robert …
- … Emma stayed at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, from 1 to 5 April 1871 ( …
- … 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix VI). Henrietta gave a long account of a Lenten mission sponsored by the Anglican church in her journal; it was based on the reports of Emily Caroline Langton and Alice Louisa Langton Massingberd , who had attended the meetings in Bournemouth (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix VI). Henrietta had seen the Langtons when she was in Cannes in 1870 ( letter from H. E. Darwin to Emma …
From H. E. Litchfield 9 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929A |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin 1 April 1871
Summary
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 68–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651 |
To H. E. Darwin 20 March 1871
Summary
Reports on sales and reception of his book [Descent]. Thanks HED for her help.
Wallace’s article in the Academy [2 (1870–1): 177–82] shows CD has had no influence on him; the review has had hardly any influence on CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 153: 77 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Mar 1871 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma …
- … J. Sulivan, 11 March 1871 and n. 8; see also Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 240). Henrietta …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma …
To H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8134 |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 September [1871]
Summary
An affectionate letter to HL on her honeymoon. Urges her to keep her mother as an example.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7922 |
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
To H. E. Litchfield [after 5] November 1871
Summary
CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".
All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [after 5] Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 251–2; DAR 153: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8040 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871]
Summary
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871] …
- … 6 Queen Anne St, London [5 Nov 1871] Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 1871. Hensleigh and Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood . St George’s Hall was a function room in Langham Place, Regent Street, London. William George Clark , a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, had recently published a tract that was critical of Anglican orthodoxy ( ODNB ). Anne Parslow was probably Henrietta’s lady’s maid, and Elizabeth Pearce , who as Bessy Harding had been the Darwin …
From E. M. Bonham-Carter to H. E. Darwin [23 June 1871]
Summary
Observations on expression of her dog for CD.
| Author: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [23 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7785 |
From Mary Lubbock to H. E. Darwin [8 May 1866 – 31 August 1871]
Summary
Age at which babies first shed tears.
| Author: | Frances Mary (Mary) Turton; Frances Mary (Mary) Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [8 May 1866 – 31 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5332 |
From S. R. S. Norton and C. E. Norton to H. E. Darwin 21 August [1871]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s title is "Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
| Author: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton; Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7914 |
| letter | (16) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (6) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
| Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (10) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (16) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
| Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
| Gaskell, M. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, Mary | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
| Norton, S. R. S. | (1) |
| Turton, Mary | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
