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From Emma Darwin   [21 April 1851]

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Discusses Anne’s sickness and her hope.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1409

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  • Horace Darwin was born 13 May 1851. Emma had sent a message via Fanny Allen asking Elizabeth Wedgwood to leave Jersey, where she was staying, and come to Down ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 132). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Elizabeth arrived on Tuesday, 22  April. See also letter

To A. S. Horner   25 May [1851]

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Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:  25 May [1851]
Classmark:  Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1428F

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  • Darwin’s death. Anne Elizabeth (Annie) Darwin , CD and Emma Darwin’s 10-year-old daughter, died on 23 April 1851 ( Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix II). Horner’s letter to CD has not been found. Horace