To Emma Darwin [3 July 1841]
Summary
The happy family life at Shrewsbury. CD is looking so well his father would not have known there was anything the matter with him. The year’s accounts come to £1380.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [3 July 1841] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-601 |
To Emma Darwin [8 March 1842]
Summary
Family news from Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-622 |
To Emma Darwin [13 March 1842]
Summary
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-623 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Whitney 9 May [1875]
Summary
CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
| Date: | 9 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9974F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Whitney, W. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Whitney 9 May [1875] …
- … 600 1875 May 6-10) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 9 May [1875] William Dwight Whitney …
- … stay abroad & that you will write to him— My dear Sir | yours very truly | Emma Darwin …
- … Buckley Litchfield visited on Saturday 8 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Darwin to W. D. Whitney, 21 December 1875 ). CD recorded in his ‘Journal’ that he ‘finished slips of Insectivorous Plants’ on 23 May 1875 (see Appendix II). Thomas Henry and Katherine Euphemia Farrer and Henrietta Emma …
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe 14 January [1875]
Summary
Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814G |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [20 April 1882]
Summary
Informs JDH of CD’s death.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20 Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769F |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [13 May 1872]
Summary
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [13 May 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8320 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Haast, Julius von …
- … From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863] …
- … MS-Papers-0037-051-3) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 12 Dec [1863] John Francis Julius ( …
- … Canterbury. I am dear Sir | yours truly | Emma Darwin I am sorry to say that Mr Darwin has …
- … and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Joseph Dalton Hooker …
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 19 October 1872
Summary
On his mother’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8565 |
From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864]
Summary
Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.
Sends photograph of CD.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13791 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Kindt, Hermann …
- … From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 14 Oct [1864] Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt …
- … Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) Emma …
- … Emma probably enclosed the photograph taken earlier in the year by William Erasmus Darwin ( …
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Summary
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
Matches: 4 hits
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 December 1838]
Summary
She agrees that London is the place to settle. She is eager to see him and full of plans.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-449 |
From Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Summary
Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-464 |
From Emma Wedgwood [7 January 1839]
Summary
Still rejoices in having found the house they like.
Thinks he might enjoy Jenny [Jane Welsh] Carlyle’s company more away from Carlyle "as she must have her full swing in talking".
Says the wedding must be fixed for the 29th instead of the 24th.
Hopes he will look better than on his last visit.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-485 |
From Emma Wedgwood [20–1 January 1839]
Summary
Preparations for the wedding, various callers, and other bits of news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-490 |
From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 3 February [1871]
Summary
Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.
| Author: | Robert Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8198 |
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 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Wedgwood, Elizabeth Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868] …
- … Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood unstated [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … moved from London to Down in 1868 (see Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 218–19). Charles Langton . …
- … Eliot, George. 1859. Adam Bede. 3 vols. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
Matches: 4 hits
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| Darwin, Emma | (85) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (85) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (105) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (105) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Fox, W. D. | (6) |
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