To Emma Darwin [28 April 1858]
Summary
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 |
To Emma Darwin [25 April 1858]
Summary
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 |
To Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood 18 [August 1856 – January 1858]
Summary
Is flattered by a proposal that he undertake some reviewing work, but has many years’ work in prospect on his present book on species and varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 18 [Aug 1856 - Jan 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1810 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 [October 1858]
Summary
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 |
To W. D. Fox 2 July [1858]
Summary
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 |
Appleton, Mary (1813–89)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 April 2017) Massachusetts, town and vital records, 1620–1988 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 April 2017) B. Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 Bibliography Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista. 5,7,8,9,10,13,18 Darwin, Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
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 |
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [29 October 1862]
Summary
Instinct in cats.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3787 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
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 |
Wedgwood, R. H. (1847–1921)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood (Charles and Emma Darwin’s cousin). BA, Oxford, 1872. Student at the Inner Temple, 1873. Curate of Chiddingstone, Kent, 1876. Received into the Roman Catholic church about 1879. Alum. Oxon. Church Union Gazette , 1 April 1877, p. 113 England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858– …
From O. A. Ainslie 23 November 1880
Summary
Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11a (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12842 |
To W. D. Fox 6 July [1858]
Summary
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: 1 hit
- … 1858] ) and by the broad mourning border on the letter. Charles Waring Darwin had died on 28 June 1858. Emma Darwin’s diary records that on 4 July 1858 ‘Miss Pugh went’. Mary Ann Pugh had been engaged as governess to the Darwin children in April 1857. CD and Emma Darwin took Henrietta Emma Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’ …
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 11 [February 1858]
Summary
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 |
Mackintosh, Eva (1843/4–1935)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s cousin, and his American-born wife, Mary Appleton. Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/578/81/61) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 October 2017) London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1916 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 October 2017) B. Wedgwood …
Holland, Mary (1792–1877)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood I. Sister of Henry Holland. Second cousin of CD and Emma Darwin, and cousin of E. C. Gaskell. Lived with her younger unmarried sister Lucy in Knutsford. Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2163/402/38) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858– …
Holland, Lucy (1800/1–83)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood I. Sister of Henry Holland. Second cousin of CD and Emma Darwin, and cousin of E. C. Gaskell. Lived with her older unmarried sister Mary in Knutsford. Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2163/402/38) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858– …
Tasker, Caroline (1838–96)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s brother-in-law and sister) at The Grove, Hartfield, 1861. Married Samuel Miles as his second wife in 1867. Cook to S. E. Wedgwood in Down, Kent, 1871. At Tower House, Down, 1881. In Hampton, Middlesex, 1891; buried there. Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/115/6/31/1), 1851 (HO107/1641/301/21), 1861 (RG9/578/81/15, RG9/578/81/16), 1871 (RG10/875/35/4), 1881 (RG11/855/89/13), 1891 (RG12/616/67/9) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858– …
Langton, Charles (1801–86)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s sister, Charlotte Wedgwood, in 1832. After her death, married CD’s sister, Emily Catherine Darwin, in 1863. After her death, lived in Bournemouth, Hampshire. Alum. Oxon . Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/1194/120/14) Emma Darwin (1915) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858– …
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
