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From Emma Darwin to Roland Trimen   [22 August 1871]

Summary

CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Roland Trimen
Date:  [22 Aug 1871]
Classmark:  Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7916

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Trimen, Roland …
  • … From Emma Darwin to Roland Trimen   [22 August 1871] …
  • … Trimen papers, box 21: 71) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Haredene, Albury Surrey [22 Aug 1871] …
  • … very sorry he is not to be able to see you | believe me | yours very truly | Emma Darwin

From S. R. S. Norton and C. E. Norton to H. E. Darwin   21 August [1871]

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Chauncey Wright’s title is "Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences".

Author:  Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton; Charles Eliot Norton
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  21 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7914

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Eliot Norton Innsbruck 21 Aug [1871] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …

From W. E. Darwin   15 August 1871

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Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Aug 1871
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7904F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Richard Buckley Litchfield , Henrietta Emma Darwin’s fiancé, had died in 1865. He divided …
  • … the marriage settlement for Henrietta Emma Darwin , who became engaged to Richard Buckley …
  • … the couple married on 31 August 1871 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 204). For details of the …

To W. M. Hacon?   29 August 1871

Summary

Sends details of trains for a clerk to travel to Down from London and back.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:  29 Aug 1871
Classmark:  B. and L. Rootenberg (dealers) [2003]
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7918F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … the letter to the marriage of Henrietta Emma Darwin . Hacon was CD’s solicitor. CD settled …
  • … s Investment book (Down House MS), p.  135; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George Howard …

From L. H. Morgan   1 August 1871

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John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.

Author:  Lewis Henry Morgan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 240
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7891

Matches: 2 hits

  • … from Liverpool to New York in March 1871 ( Gardiner 2006 , p.  205). Emma Darwin and …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin . Morgan refers to Joseph Henry and William Wesley . There is a copy …

From V. O. Kovalevsky   19 August [1871]

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A. J. Gaudry is one of few supporters of Darwinism in Paris.

The climate is so hostile that Kovalevsky must mitigate his views so as not to irritate the French.

Working on Anchitherium, which he believes is intermediate between Palaeotherium and the horse.

His brother-in-law has been arrested.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7911

Matches: 2 hits

  • … equids see MacFadden 1992 , especially pp.  28–9. Kovalevsky refers to Emma Darwin and her …
  • … daughters, Henrietta Emma Darwin and Elizabeth Darwin . Kovalevsky wrote a Russian lower- …

To W. W. Baxter   8 August [1871]

Summary

Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  8 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7900

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1871] and n.  4. The postscript is in Emma Darwin’s hand. Citrate of iron and quinia was a …

From J. F. McLennan   21 August 1871

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Thanks CD for helping with arrangements for an American edition [of Primitive marriage (1865)].

He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock.

Author:  John Ferguson McLennan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7913

Matches: 1 hit

  • … lived at High Elms, Down, Kent. Henrietta Emma Darwin was engaged to be married to Richard …

To John Lubbock   12 August [1871]

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CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  12 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7904

Matches: 1 hit

  • … CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma Darwin was engaged to be married to Richard …

From T. H. Farrer   11 August 1871

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Sorry he will be away when CD comes down.

Congratulations on Henrietta Darwin’s engagement.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 164: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7903

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Henrietta Emma, and Elizabeth Darwin ; his sister-in-law has not been identified. …
  • Darwins were staying at Haredene in Albury, about three miles from Abinger Hall, returning home on 25 August 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Farrer refers to Emma, …