From Emma and Elizabeth Wedgwood to Catherine Darwin [13 November 1838]
Summary
Hopes the Darwins in Shrewsbury will help her convince CD that he must not hurry their marriage too greatly. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] adds a postscript to the same effect.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-434 |
From Catherine Darwin 27–30 January 1834
Summary
News of family and friends: W. D. Fox will marry in the spring; private theatricals at Eaton house-party.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27–30 Jan 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-236 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [c. June 1823]
Summary
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".
She misses him and the laboratory.
Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. June 1823] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Edited with appendix and notes by Nora Barlow. London: Collins. 1958. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … at the beginning with Clovis. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 141). The passage ‘This Morning … …
- … Darwin , CD’s eldest sister. A general term for a number of crystalline minerals. Mrs Mayer’s school was at Greville House, on Paddington Green, London. CD’s cousins, Frances and Emma …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [27 April 1851]
Summary
Thoughts on the death of Anne.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1423 |
From Catherine Darwin 25 July [– 3 August] 1832
Summary
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-179 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … six, after a few days’ illness from some inflammatory attack’ ( Emma Darwin 1: 250). …
- … Although Henrietta Litchfield reports (in Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 141 n. ) that CD once told …
- … in 1827; together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d’Acunha. London. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
From Catherine Darwin 29 May 1833
Summary
She and Susan are in London, and she writes of people they have seen or had news of: Captain Harding, E. A. Darwin, Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood, Emma Wedgwood, the Langtons, Josiah Wedgwood and Aunt Bessie, Fanny Biddulph and child, and the Evanses of Portrane.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-208 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [25? April 1851]
Summary
Commiseration on the death of Anne.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25? Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1421 |
To Catherine Darwin [16 September 1842]
Summary
Emma and Doddy [W. E. Darwin] like Down. CD has met, and plans to employ, the local surgeon. "I feel sure I shall become deeply attached to Down, with a few improvements".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [16 Sept 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 6 (EH 88202298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-633 |
From Catherine Darwin [26 October 1825]
Summary
Shrewsbury news.
Glad he likes Edinburgh.
They have been going to plays performed by a travelling company he knows.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1825] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-17 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
From Catherine & Caroline Darwin 11 April [1826]
Summary
Family and Shrewsbury news. Visits of relatives and friends.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-31 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin and Harry and Jessie Wedgwood . Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood . Hensleigh Wedgwood . Journal and remarks , which was the third volume of Narrative . The seat of Edward Smythe , seven miles south of Shrewsbury. The Mostyn Owen family of Woodhouse. Eaton Mascott was the home of Sarah (née Owen) and Edward Hosier Williams . Josiah Wedgwood III . Maria Sneyd and her daughter Mary Emma …
From Catherine Darwin 27 September 1833
Summary
Mainly Shropshire news of family and friends.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-217 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Wedgwood; all his favourites around him. — I am afraid Erasmus is too idle to write to you; which is very naughty of him. — Papa is very well, and is planning another little Journey, in the South of England to see the Cathedrals of Winchester, & Salisbury. Travelling does him a great deal of good. — He sends his most affectionate love to you, & with all our best of loves, believe me | ever, dearest Charles | Y r very affecte Sister | E. Catherine Darwin …
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