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From Emma Darwin   [23 April 1851]

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Tells of the hopes raised by CD’s letter of Monday regarding Anne’s health.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1411

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  • Darwin (1915) 2: 132). Caroline refers to the grief she and Josiah Wedgwood III experienced when Sophy Marianne Wedgwood , their first child, died at the age of seven weeks in January 1839. William Erasmus Darwin , CD’s oldest son, then 11 years old. Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, who lived at Petleys, close to Down House. Francis Darwin , then nearly 2 1 2 years old. The final paragraph, written in pencil, refers to a letter