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 Elizabeth Wedgwood 10 November [1837]
Summary
Sends information about, and dates of treatment of peaty fields. Marl seems to have sunk to the natural stratum of hard white sand which lies below the peat.
Thanks for "Maer Hypothesis" ["Formation of mould" (1840), Collected papers 1: 49–53].
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-385 |
To Elizabeth Wedgwood [28 August 1837]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-375 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
