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To Emma Darwin   [28 April 1858]

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CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [28 Apr 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2261

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  • … English literature at Queen’s University, Belfast. Not identified. Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
  • … was written after the letter to Emma Darwin, [25 April 1858] . Simon Francis Bernard was …
  • … DAR 210.8: 34 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [28 Apr 1858] Emma
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma

To Emma Darwin   [25 April 1858]

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Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.

Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.

Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [25 Apr 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2413

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  • … Victoria (see n.  3, below). Henrietta Emma Darwin , aged 15, had undergone treatment at …
  • … Company in 1858. Charlotte Langton was Emma Darwin’s sister. The author of The letters of …
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma
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