To Emma Darwin [24 June 1846]
Summary
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [24 June 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-982 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Darwin, Emma …
- … To Emma Darwin [24 June 1846] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … DAR 210.8: 24 Charles Robert Darwin Down [24 June 1846] Emma …
- … and phaeton seemed to be kept entirely for our service’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). …
- … Henry Hemmings was one of Sarah Wedgwood’s servants ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 106). …
- … at Tenby’ and the notation on letter to Emma Darwin, [25 June 1846] , ‘June 1846 to me at …
- … Down House MS) 7 July 1846 and letter to Emma Darwin, [25 June 1846] . Sulivan had just …
- … in Down. John Lewis . See letter to Emma Darwin, [3–4 February 1845] , n. 5. Presumably a …
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma …
- … s voyage on 19 June 1846. Emma took William and Anne Darwin to Tenby, a seaside resort and …
To Emma Darwin [25 June 1846]
Summary
CD has been stomachy and sick, but not very uncomfortable.
Working on proofs [of South America] and cannot keep printer supplied with manuscript.
His thoughts of her, and news of the children who are at Down with him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 June 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-981 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 October 1846]
Summary
Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?
CD intends writing paper on their propagation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1007 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
To Georgina Tollet 1 October [1846?–71]
Summary
Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georgina Tollet |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1846-71] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2499 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … have given CD encouragement earlier. Emma Darwin commented to William Erasmus Darwin in an …
- … Emma, who has so good a heart, says that as when I looked really closely I could see webs everywhere, she thinks you, who are so sharp-sighted, could not have overlooked them before, so that they must have disappeared. I, alas, have not nearly so good a heart. — Anyhow in the 13 webs marked neither spiders or anything else had caused a line to disappear. — I am very ungrateful not at least to wish to see (,or rather not see) what you saw; as you cheered me so in my work on Species. — Pray believe me, yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin …
To Francis Wedgwood 27 November [1846]
Summary
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1034 |
To Thomas Gold Appleton 31 March [1846]
Summary
Thanks for the gift of Frémont 1845. Has had a visit from R. J. Mackintosh and his wife Mary, Appleton’s sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1846] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-968F |
To Charles Lyell [3 October 1846]
Summary
Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [3 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1004 |
To J. D. Hooker [8? February 1846]
Summary
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8? Feb 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-950 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma yesterday to thank Lady Hooker & yourself for the Goldsmith Hall good-things, which will delight the children: I am going to send to Bromley tomorrow & will enquire at the Coach offices. Will you ask Gay for me, what Birds, Reptiles or Mammifers (not introduced) inhabit Juan Fernandez? I have always been curious about it— In Haste. I will write again before long. My dear Hooker | C. Darwin …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Francis | (1) |
