From Emma Darwin [June 1861]
Summary
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3169 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
To W. E. Darwin 9 May [1861]
Summary
Discusses family and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3145 |
To H. W. Bates 3 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks HWB for references.
Praises his paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", read before Linnean Society, 21 Nov 1861, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862) : 495–566] which solves "one of the most perplexing problems which could be given to solve".
Discusses the difficulties of writing and expresses disappointment at Wallace’s book [Travels on the Amazon (1861)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3338 |
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
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- … and Henrietta Emma Darwin , accompanied by Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood (the youngest daughter …
- … Wedgwood), went on a tour of the Dartmoor area of Devon from 30 July until 5 August. Their tour included visits to Ashburton, Holne Chase, Lushleigh, Whyddon Park, Chagford, Fingle Bridge, and Drewsteignton. According to Henrietta Litchfield, this was the only tour Emma …
- … Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178). Frances Elizabeth Longfellow , wife of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , was burned to death in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after her dress caught fire. She was the sister of Mary Mackintosh, the wife of Robert Mackintosh, who was the brother of Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood. …
To Thomas Salt 9 February [1861]
Summary
Asks for advice about the mortgage to Major Owen for £20,000.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061F |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
