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To Emma Darwin   [28 April 1858]

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CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [28 Apr 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2261

Matches: 7 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … To Emma Darwin   [28 April 1858] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … English literature at Queen’s University, Belfast. Not identified. Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
  • … was written after the letter to Emma Darwin, [25 April 1858] . Simon Francis Bernard was …
  • … DAR 210.8: 34 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [28 Apr 1858] Emma
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma

To Emma Darwin   [25 April 1858]

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Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.

Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.

Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [25 Apr 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2413

Matches: 7 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … To Emma Darwin   [25 April 1858] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … DAR 210.8: 33 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [25 Apr 1858] Emma
  • … Victoria (see n.  3, below). Henrietta Emma Darwin , aged 15, had undergone treatment at …
  • … Company in 1858. Charlotte Langton was Emma Darwin’s sister. The author of The letters of …
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma

To J. D. Hooker   [29 June 1858]

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Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.

JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [29 June 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 239
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2297

Matches: 5 hits

  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … December 1856. According to Henrietta Emma Darwin , ‘The poor little baby was born without …
  • … He had never learnt to walk or talk. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 162). Henrietta probably …
  • Emma behaved nobly & how she stood it all I cannot conceive. It was wonderful relief, when she could let her feelings break forth— God Bless you. — You shall hear soon as soon as I can think Yours affectionately | C.  Darwin

To William Erasmus Darwin   11 [February 1858]

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Writes of domestic matters

and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  11 [Feb 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2215

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Meteyard 1875 , pp.  302–5). Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s brother. …
  • … see n.  2, below). On 2 February 1857, Emma Darwin noted in her diary that ‘W m went to …
  • … Chronicle , [before 13 June 1857]. Emma Darwin’s diary records that she ‘came to London’ …
  • … on 16 February 1857. Henrietta Emma Darwin accompanied her, and the younger children came …
  • … he acquired in 1844 following the death of Emma Darwin’s father Josiah Wedgwood II (see …
  • Emma returned to Down on 25 February. Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre was an equestrian theatre in London founded by Philip Astley . CD had once taken his young cousins to see the performance ( Correspondence vol.  2, letter to Susan Darwin, [ …

To W. D. Fox   6 July [1858]

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The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  6 July [1858]
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2304

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Waring Darwin had died on 28 June 1858. Emma Darwin’s diary records that on 4 July 1858 ‘ …
  • … been engaged as governess to the Darwin children in April 1857. CD and Emma Darwin took …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s house in Hartfield on 9 July 1858 and …

To J. D. Hooker   15 January [1858]

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CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.

Family illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Jan [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 221
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2203

Matches: 5 hits

  • … D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] and n.  5. Emma Darwin’s brother Josiah Wedgwood III and his …
  • … CD’s sister, arrived with their family at Down on 15 January 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
  • … 30 September [1857] , and n.  13). Emma Darwin recorded Leonard’s fluctuating ill health …
  • … 13, was attending Clapham Grammar School. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that ‘G.  went …
  • … to school’ on 1 February 1858. Henrietta Emma Darwin , aged 15, had suffered poor health …

To W. E. Darwin   14 [May 1858]

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Relates events at home;

hopes WED gets the scholarship.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 [May 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2273

Matches: 4 hits

  • … the reference to Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin having gone to London (see n.  3, below). …
  • … usually made out of tin. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, ‘Etty went to Mr Bell’ on 14  …
  • … arrived at Down House on 17 May 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Robert Ainslie , of Tromer …
  • … of the six home counties 1855). Emma Darwin , in a letter to William written early in …

To J. D. Hooker   23 [June 1858]

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Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 [June 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 238
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2290

Matches: 2 hits

  • … unknown in Britain before the epidemic of 1857–8. Henrietta Emma Darwin had fallen ill …
  • … on 18 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary). For CD’s invitation to Hooker, see letter to J.  D. …

To W. E. Darwin   15 [October 1858]

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Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  15 [Oct 1858]
Classmark:  Provenance unknown
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2341

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Dated by CD’s reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin (see n.  8, below) and by Emily Catherine …
  • … Wedgwood III , on 20 October 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD went to Moor Park hydropathic …
  • … from 18 October to 2 November 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Probably the family of George …
  • … letter written shortly before this one, Emma Darwin told William: ‘Yesterday Miss Norman & …

To J. S. Henslow   4 August [1858]

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CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.

Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  4 Aug [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A53–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2320

Matches: 2 hits

  • … on 13 August 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II); Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin remained until …
  • … 19 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter from J.  D. Hooker, 31 July 1858 . Henslow …

To W. D. Fox   27 [June 1858]

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Profoundly sorry for Lane.

Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.

Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.

Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  27 [June 1858]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2296

Matches: 3 hits

  • … B. Tegetmeier, 9 May [1858] and 8 [June 1858] . Henrietta Emma Darwin was taken ill with …
  • … diphtheria on 18 June 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 23 [June 1858] . Emma Darwin’s diary records that on 26 June 1858, three days …

To W. D. Fox   2 July [1858]

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Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  2 July [1858]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2300

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s sister, had arrived at Down House on …
  • … home in Hartfield, Sussex, on 2 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD and Emma stayed at Down …

To W. E. Darwin   [20 June 1858]

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Relates domestic affairs.

Thinks his bees’ cell theory will hold good.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [20 June 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2267

Matches: 3 hits

  • … see n.  6, below) and to Henrietta Emma Darwin being ill (see n.  5, below). Westwood …
  • … The Times , 18 June 1858, pp.  6, 8–9. Emma Darwin’s diary records that Henrietta Darwin …
  • … was a popular term for tonsilitis. Emma Darwin’s diary records that Ellen Harriet Tollet , …

To W. E. Darwin   [26 April 1858]

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Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [26 Apr 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2265

Matches: 1 hit

  • … letter to W.  E. Darwin, 11 [February 1858] ). See letter to Emma Darwin [25 April 1858] . …

To J. D. Hooker   27 [November 1858]

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Memorial concerning British Museum collection.

Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 [Nov 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 258
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2386

Matches: 1 hit

  • … CD’s copy (Darwin Library–CUL). Henslow left Down on 27 November ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …

To W. E. Darwin   22 [September 1858]

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Discusses domestic affairs.

Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].

Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  22 [Sept 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2328

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin , aged 11. On 19 September 1858, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary: ‘Lizzy poorly …
  • … William Greive Wilson for a short time ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD paid £11 10 s . on 10  …

To J. D. Hooker   13 [July 1858]

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JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.

Observations on floral structure

and slave-making ants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 [July 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 242
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2306

Matches: 2 hits

  • … CD and Emma Darwin had joined their children at Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood’s …
  • … July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary records that they spent the night …

To W. E. Darwin   6 October [1858]

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Sends £20. Family news.

Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  6 Oct [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 92: A19–21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2334

Matches: 2 hits

  • … began on 11 October 1858. An entry in Emma Darwin’s diary on 6 October 1858 reads: ‘came …
  • … are occasionally mentioned in letters from Emma Darwin to William. In February 1859, she …

To Charles Lyell   [25 June 1858]

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Everything in Wallace’s sketch also appears in CD’s sketch of 1844. A year ago CD sent a short sketch of his views to Asa Gray. Can CD honourably publish his sketch now that Wallace has sent outline of his views? "I would far rather burn my whole book than that he or any man shd. think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit." Does not believe Wallace originated his views from anything CD wrote to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [25 June 1858]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.153)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2294

Matches: 1 hit

  • … to J.  D. Hooker, [29 June 1858] . Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that Charles Waring …

From W. D. Fox   11 June [1858]

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Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.

Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.

Author:  William Darwin Fox
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 June [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7815

Matches: 2 hits

  • … record of a visit by him to Down in Emma Darwin’s diary. CD’s portfolio of notes marked ‘ …
  • … also to her sisters Emma Elizabeth Wilmot , Violetta Harriot Darwin , and Millicent Susan …
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