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From Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood   28 [April 1851]

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Thoughts after the death of Anne.

Author:  Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 [Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1424

Matches: 8 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 …
  • … via London, on 19 April ( letter to Emma Darwin, [19 April 1851] ). Fanny Allen . Leith …
  • … in order to see the Great Exhibition ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 141). The George Tollet s of …
  • … See letter to Emma Darwin, [21 April 1851] , in which CD …
  • … of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Effie and the other children …
  • Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood London, Chester Terrace 28 [Apr 1851] Charles Robert Darwin
  • … that Anne asked after Henrietta Darwin. For Emma’s notes on Henrietta in the months …

From Alphonse de Candolle   9 July 1881

Summary

AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.

Author:  Alphonse de Candolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 161: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13239

Matches: 5 hits

  • … prodromi nunc continuatio nunc revisio . 9 vols. Paris: G. Masson. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
  • … Press. 1904. Healey, Edna. 2001. Emma Darwin: the inspirational wife of a genius. London: …
  • … see CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma Darwin (then Wedgwood) and her sister Frances had …
  • … between November 1826 and June 1827 ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 1: 245–74; Healey 2001 , p. …

From Francis Darwin   [1–15 March 1873]

Summary

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1–15 Mar 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8714F

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Down for London on 15 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George Howard Darwin . …
  • … tonic (see Harley ed.  1876, p.  294). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary, ‘began Arsenic’ …
  • … Joseph Parslow . Moore visited Down on 1 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Emma Darwin had influenza from 26 February  …
  • … 1873 until about 6 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [6 March 1873] , DAR 258: 573). …

From Francis Darwin   [31 May 1876]

Summary

Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 May 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10517F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … and n. 5). The weather on Sunday 28 May 1876 was pleasant, and CD and Emma Darwin went up …
  • … Holmbury Hill ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis, possibly …
  • … came to Hopedene on 3 June 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He also refers to …
  • … for Leonard Darwin , who was at Down from 8 May 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … on 10 May; he was staying with CD and Emma Darwin at Hopedene (see letter from Francis …

From Andrew Clark   3 September 1873

Summary

Diagnosis of CD’s illness; prescribed diet.

Author:  Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Sept 1873
Classmark:  DAR 161: 151
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9041

Matches: 5 hits

  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
  • … difficulty in getting Clark to accept his fee ( letter from Emma Darwin to H.  E.   …
  • … 2 September 1873] (DAR 219.9: 105); Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 266–7). According to Atkins  …
  • … in Heathfield, Bromley. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Clark had attended CD …

From W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin   22 July 1880

Summary

Returns Geikie’s letter; is glad he has accepted settlement of gravel through melting of snow. Is trudging around with hammer and bag with help of Ramsay’s book. Describes visits to Kenilworth and Stratford. Sara consulted a physician. Called on Reginald D. and enjoyed meeting relations and seeing picture of Erasmus. Reginald very taken with George.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  22 July 1880
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 76)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12665F

Matches: 7 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … William Erasmus Darwin Buckingham House, Buxton 22 July 1880 Charles Robert Darwin Emma
  • … From W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin   22 July 1880 …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … 1880 ). George had recently met Reginald Darwin ; Emma Darwin wrote of the meeting, ‘G. …
  • … his letters seemed to be’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 July 1880] ; …
  • … Darwin, W. E. Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma

From Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood   25 April [1851]

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Tells of the burial of Anne.

Author:  Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Apr [1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1419

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … reason, and insisted on leaving’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 86). Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood’s …
  • … Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood unstated 25 Apr [1851] Charles Robert Darwin

From H. E. Litchfield   [before 2 December 1871]

Summary

Summarises her theory about expression in music.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 2 Dec 1871]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8088F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42) Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • … Henrietta Emma Litchfield [before 2 Dec 1871] Charles Robert Darwin

From H. E. Darwin   [c. 10 May 1866]

Summary

Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.

Self-fertilising orchids.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 10 May 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5075

Matches: 3 hits

  • … DAR 162: 67 Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • … CD at Down from 23 to 25 June 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). For CD’s apprehension …
  • … Henrietta Emma Litchfield unstated [c. 10 May 1866] Charles Robert Darwin

From J. D. Hooker   13 May 1866

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Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray

with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.

Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.

Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.

Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.

John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].

R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 May 1866
Classmark:  DAR 102: 71–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5089

Matches: 8 hits

  • … Frances Harriet Hooker , visited from 23 to 29  June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin was in France (see letter from H.  E.  Darwin, [ c. 10 May 1866] and …
  • … 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … Royal Society of London on 28 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The event is …
  • … 5 May 1866, pp.  597–8. According to Emma Darwin , many of CD’s old friends did not …
  • … of them, as his beard alters him so’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 185). Hooker refers to John …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Emma Darwin to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 December [1863] , …

From Edward Cresy   27 April 1863

Summary

CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 161: 241
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4130

Matches: 4 hits

  • … 356). See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: …
  • … Cresy visited Down House for lunch (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Cresy refers to …
  • … DNB ). See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR …
  • … 251: 2232, and letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [4 May 1863]. See …

From Emma Wuttke   1 October 1873

Summary

Sends tracing of ancient Egyptian illustration of dogs and cattle.

Author:  Emma Wuttke
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 181: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9083

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Wuttke, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
  • … DAR 181: 189 Emma Wuttke Leipzig 1 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin

From Francis Parker   22 April 1867

Summary

Sends £600 bequeathed by Susan Darwin to CD’s younger children.

Author:  Francis (Frank) Parker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1867
Classmark:  DAR 174: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5510

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Horace Darwin . ....  100 Henrietta Emma Darwin …  100 Elizabeth Darwin .... . . 100 Cha …
  • … Darwins father —valued at £4—) Henrietta Emma Darwin (a Silver Tea Urn—valued at £28 . 2 . …
  • … Horace Darwin and my nieces Henrietta Emma Darwin and Elizabeth Darwin (the younger sons …

From H. E. Litchfield   [13 November 1871]

Summary

Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 Nov 1871]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8054F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41) Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • … Henrietta Emma Litchfield [13 Nov 1871] Charles Robert Darwin

From Charles Hoare   20 November 1877

Summary

A poem in tribute to CD following the award of his Cambridge LL.D.

Author:  Charles Hoare
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 140.1: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11243

Matches: 2 hits

  • … D—D. D. D. book’ (letter from W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin, [14 January 1879] (DAR 210.5: …
  • … with William Erasmus Darwin (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, 14 October [1878] ( …

From H. E. Litchfield   9 September [1871]

Summary

CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.

Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Sept [1871]
Classmark:  Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7929A

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525) Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • Emma Litchfield Hotel Sonnenberg, Seelisberg Switzerland 9 Sept [1871] Charles Robert Darwin

From Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter   20 March [1868]

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Reports her sister-in-law’s observations of her child, up to three months old, while crying and screaming.

Author:  Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Mar [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 244
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6028

Matches: 4 hits

  • … to the Darwins’ stay in London and to Emma Darwin’s illness (see below, n.  4). Sibella …
  • … 1867 ( ODNB , s.v. Carter, Henry Bonham). Henrietta Emma Darwin . CD was in London from …
  • … 3 March to 1 April 1868. Emma Darwin was ill with influenza from …
  • … 14 to 19 March 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD’s annotation refers to his …

From Mary Butler   [before 25 December 1862]

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J. P. Thom [of Home News] must change his position because of his health. Asks if CD can help find him a new situation.

Author:  Mary Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 25 Dec 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 392
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3838

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Butler visited Down House for a week ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In 1862, Lane took …
  • … by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
  • … Drysdale was Lane’s mother-in-law, and lived with him ( Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 184). …
  • … No letters from Emma Darwin to Butler have been found. CD made the acquaintance of J.   …
  • … identified. Emma had been encouraging CD to grow a beard (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, …

From H. E. Litchfield   [1 February 1880]

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Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield; Richard Buckley Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Feb 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12450

Matches: 5 hits

  • … DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4 Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • … 4 February 1880 (DAR 219.1: 134), Emma Darwin wrote to her son William Erasmus Darwin , ‘ …
  • Emma Litchfield Richard Buckley Litchfield London, Bryanston St, 4 [1 Feb 1880] Charles Robert Darwin
  • Darwin’s: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 397–424. Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. …
  • Emma Litchfield had been sent one or two draft letters from CD to the Athenæum , along with a copy of the Athenæum containing the letter from Samuel Butler (see letter to H.  E.  Litchfield, 1 February [1880] and three enclosures). In his first draft response, CD had stated that text had inadvertently been left out of the preface to Erasmus Darwin

From Francis Darwin   1 and 2 May [1875]

Summary

Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 and 2 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. …
  • … on Hawaii ( Bird 1875 ) because he knew that Emma Darwin considered Bird ‘such a romancer’ …
  • … her not worth reading ( letter from Emma Darwin to William Darwin, [5 March 1875] (DAR …
  • … the plants that Francis mentions to Emma Darwin may have been intended for the garden …
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