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To W. E. Darwin   25 [November 1856]

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Writes about suitable mourning clothes and sale of house [Petleys, after death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood I].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  25 [Nov 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2000

Matches: 6 hits

  • … use of Sarah Wedgwood’s phaeton, which would now cease (see Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). …
  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … at Rugby School ( Rugby School register ). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that ‘George …
  • … 6 October 1856. Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s older sister and CD’s …
  • … cousin. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that ‘Eliz came’ on 27 November 1856. The Mid- …

To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin   13 [November 1856]

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Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Date:  13 [Nov 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1987

Matches: 9 hits

  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … in Down village, in 1847 (see Correspondence vol.  3, letter to Emma Darwin, [24 June …
  • … 1846] and Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). …
  • … had taken place on 12 November 1856 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). These uncles were Emma’s …
  • … which only gained by repetition. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 106). Henrietta Litchfield …
  • … believe ever visited in the village. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). Although CD had told …
  • Darwin , then at Rugby School. Dated by the reference to the funeral of Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, who died on 6 November 1856. Sarah Wedgwood , CD’s and Emma’ …
  • Emma’s older sister, Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood. John Lewis was the carpenter and undertaker in Down village. John Innes , perpetual curate of Down. Henry Hemmings , Sarah Morrey , and Martha Morrey . Sarah Wedgwood’s servants, of whom the Darwin

To Charles Lyell   10 November [1856]

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Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.

Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.

Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].

Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  10 Nov [1856]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1984

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin. Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood. Mentions work …
  • … Wedgwood died on 6 November 1856 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 161). She had broken her hip in …

From George Howard Darwin   [28 November 1856]

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Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Nov 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 251: 2222
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2003F

Matches: 6 hits

  • … an hour by a nose-bleed ( letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [1 December 1856] , …
  • … n.  4, below), and by references in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). The only Thursday in …
  • … ill while at home: for 25 November 1856 Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records, ‘G.  very …
  • … Darwin, 25 [November 1856] ). Henrietta Emma Darwin later wrote, ‘Mrs Morrey’s gingerbread …
  • … we have ever tasted before or since’ ( Emma Darwin (1915), 2: 106). Petleys was auctioned …
  • … CD’s and Emma’s aunt, who had died 6 November 1856 ( Freeman 1978 ). The Darwin children, …

To J. M. Herbert   18 November [1856]

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Defers a visit with Lieutenant Blakiston; "my wife is out of health & expects her confinement in a few weeks, & I cannot possibly receive any one here or leave home . . ."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Maurice Herbert
Date:  18 Nov [1856]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (June 1991); Remember When Antiquities (dealers) (catalogue 26, 1992); Gerard A. J. Stodolski Inc. (dealers) (1995)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2020A

Matches: 2 hits

  • … year is established by the reference to Emma Darwin’s pregnancy (see n.  3, below) and the …
  • … in London from 13 to 16 January 1857 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Herschel ed.  1849; …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   19 November [1856]

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Emma’s illness prevents his attending Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].

Expects larger collection of skins from West Africa.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  19 Nov [1856]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1992

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Dated by the reference to Emma Darwin’s expected confinement and to the letter from W.  F. …