To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
To W. D. Fox [20 November 1843]
Summary
Family news and their quiet life at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1843] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-715 |
To W. D. Fox [25 March 1843]
Summary
Sympathises with WDF’s persisting grief.
Describes Down House and additions being built, which interfere with Geology [of "Beagle"].
Bodily health is improved, but cannot stand mental excitement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Mar 1843] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-665 |
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- … wife Harriet had died on 19 March 1842. Henrietta Emma Darwin was born 25 September 1843. …
- … Emma is as bad as she usually is in her present state. — I am very much stronger corporeally, but am b
〈 ut〉 little better in being able to stand mental fatigue or rather excitement, so that I cannot dine out or receive visitors, except relations with whom I can pass some time after dinner in silence. Farewell my dear Fox with my best wishes. — Ever yours | C. Darwin …
To Charles Lyell [15 or 22 September 1843]
Summary
Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].
BAAS meeting.
Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.
Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.
Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [15 or 22] Sept 1843 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-696 |
To W. D. Fox [4 September 1843]
Summary
Comments on his visit to N. Wales and the evidence of glaciation, of which he feels certain.
His marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] has revived after Louis Agassiz’s "ice work" knocked it on the head.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [4 Sept 1843] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-692 |
To S. P. Woodward [14 January 1843]
Summary
Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1843] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-652 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
