From Emma Wedgwood [3 January 1839]
Summary
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-482 |
Matches: 5 hits
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- … DAR 204: 158 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Maer [3 Jan 1839] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … is preserved in DAR 219. See also Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 141–2. The excisions made from CD’ …
From Emma Wedgwood [9 January 1839]
Summary
Glad to have his letter; supposes she will receive only two or three more from him in her life.
Thinks he should leave the curtains for her.
Discusses Mungo Park and Sir Walter Scott’s Life.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-486 |
From Emma Darwin [c. February 1839]
Summary
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-471 |
From Emma Wedgwood [23 January 1839]
Summary
Responds warmly to his very nice letter. CD need have no fear that she will not be as happy as he.
Again expresses uneasiness that their opinions on religion do not agree on all points. Hopes they will sympathise in their feelings on the subject.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-492 |
To Emma Wedgwood [26 January 1839]
Summary
He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [26 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-493 |
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 |
To Emma Wedgwood [20 January 1839]
Summary
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-489 |
To Emma Wedgwood 2 [–3 January 1839]
Summary
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 2 [–3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-481 |
Matches: 6 hits
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- … at the Athenæum Good Bye my own dear Emma | Most affectionately Yours | Chas. Darwin …
- … so good bye my dear Emma. Ever your Affect | Charles Darwin. — P.S. I took the Respirator …
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 25 May [1839]
Summary
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 25 May [1839] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512 |
To ? [1839–82]
Summary
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1839–82] |
Classmark: | Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13925F |
To J. S. Henslow [10 November 1839]
Summary
Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.
Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [10 Nov 1839] |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-543 |
To W. D. Fox 24 October [1839]
Summary
Hopes to publish volume on coral formations in a few months.
He and Emma live quietly, having given up parties.
Asks WDF if he remembers the Darwin family motto. He means to have a "seal solemnly engraved".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 Oct [1839] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-541 |
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Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
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Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
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Darwin, Emma | (11) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (11) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |