To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Emma …
- … To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … DAR 210.8: 26 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [31 Oct 1847] Emma …
- … the text have been traced over in ink by Emma Darwin . Where CD’s original alterations are …
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma …
- … Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma’s sister. Robert Waring Darwin , who was an enthusiastic …
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847]
Summary
Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [22 June – 10 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1043 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … pp. 119, 140–1. Francis Wedgwood, brother of Josiah Wedgwood III and of Emma Darwin . …
- … in the Leeds & Bradford Railway for Emma Darwin’s trust fund on 21 August 1847. See also …
- … Wedgwood III and Erasmus Alvey Darwin were the trustees of Emma Darwin’s trust fund. …
- … This £15 had been advanced to Emma Darwin’s trust fund by CD on 17 June and was repaid on …
- … Emma a present of them. — I most sincerely hope, your troubles in my Trust affairs are pretty well over— Please return the enclosed sometime; & I hope you will let me know as soon as you can, what money I have to invest; as now is so good a time. — As soon as I hear from Frank that I may write to Stokes, I shall do so the next post. Yours affectionly | C. Darwin …
To Josiah Wedgwood III 14 August [1847]
Summary
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108F |
To J. D. Hooker [31 October 1847]
Summary
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1131 |
From Henry Allen Wedgwood 21 February 1847
Summary
Concerning the purchase of shares.
| Author: | Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1847 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1062 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [20? August 1847]
Summary
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [20? Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1042 |
To John Higgins 10 September [1847]
Summary
Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1117 |
To Thomas Salt [March 1847]
Summary
Maer purchase-money; London and Birmingham Railway Company shares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | [Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1066F |
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1847]
Summary
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1085 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [July 1847]
Summary
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [July 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1080 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Wedgwood, H. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
