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From John and Emma Pender   [before 23 June 1870]

Author:  John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 23 June 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 53.2: 168v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7240F

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  • … Pender, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … Denison/Emma Pender [before 23 June 1870] Charles Robert Darwin Pender, John Denison, Emma
  • … Edward VII) at a Royal Society of London soirée on 28 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: …
  • … 184–5; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The party at the Penders’ London house was to …

To B. J. Sulivan   30 June [1870]

Summary

Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.

In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".

Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:  30 June [1870]
Classmark:  Sulivan family (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7256

Matches: 2 hits

  • … to Leonard Darwin . CD refers to Emma Darwin , Sophia Sulivan , and Catherine Sabine …
  • … married William Wallace Trench . A note in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 21 June 1870  …

From Benjamin Collins Brodie   9 June 1870

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Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]

Author:  Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 June 1870
Classmark:  DAR 160: 315
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7225

Matches: 1 hit

  • … refers to Emma and presumably Henrietta Emma Darwin . Brodie was the Wayneflete Professor …