To Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood [24 April 1851]
Summary
Arrangements for leaving Malvern after death of Anne.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1413 |
Matches: 4 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 …
- … discussed by Fanny Allen in March 1851 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 129) and may have been lent …
- … MS W/M 310) Charles Robert Darwin Malvern [24 Apr 1851] Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [27 April 1851]
Summary
Thoughts on the death of Anne.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1423 |
To Thomas Salt 24 December 1851
Summary
Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1851 |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1465F |
To Hensleigh and Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 1 May [1851]
Summary
Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1426 |
To Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood [25 April 1851]
Summary
Is glad he returned home to be with Emma, and is grateful to Fanny for following Anne to the grave.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1417 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Anne’s grave in Malvern churchyard in DAR 210.13. The postscript is in Emma Darwin’s hand. …
- … M 310) Charles Robert Darwin Down [25 Apr 1851] Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh/ …
- … Emma is very firm, but is of course repeatedly overwhelmed with grief. I owe it to you that I am here. Dear Fanny I cannot thank you. Sometime I sh d wish to know on which side & part of the Church-Yard, as far as you can describe it, the body of our once joyous child rests. Yours most affectionately | C. Darwin …
To Josiah Wedgwood III [after 12 July 1851]
Summary
Inquires about the nature of some money recently paid to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1213 |
To Thomas Salt 26 December [1851]
Summary
Asks Thomas Salt to accept the repayment of a mortgage from Captain Muckleston’s executors, if Josiah Wedgwood agrees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1851] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1466G |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 July [1851]
Summary
Sends completed MS [vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] with instructions for the printers; reviews number of plates and woodcuts, and offers to pay for extras and for excess corrections, if they occur. Hopes the Council [of the Ray Society] will print his second volume at the end of the ensuing year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 30 July [1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1447 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society [7 August 1851]
Summary
CD returns home Saturday and would like his servant to take his MS [of Living Cirripedia] to Adlard that morning; he does not have a copy and would on no account re-undergo the labour he has spent on it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1448 |
To Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood [21 April 1851]
Summary
Asks FW to come over to feel his daughter’s pulse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1407 |
To John Wickham Flower 23 March [1851]
Summary
Thanks JWF for [cirripede] fossils; one species seems from a new formation.
Regrets that his health makes it necessary to decline an invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Wickham Flower |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1851] |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1075 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [25? April 1851]
Summary
Commiseration on the death of Anne.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25? Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1421 |
From E. A. Darwin [25 April 1851]
Summary
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1418 |
To E. A. Darwin [25 April 1851]
Summary
Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1416 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma is well bodily & very firm, but feels bitterly & God knows we can neither see on any side a gleam of comfort. — Fannys sweetness, firmness, constancy & experience were of inexpressible comfort to me at Malvern, & to the last day of my life it will be a comfort to me to think of the tears she so tenderly wept over our poor dear child, when all was over. My dear Erasmus | Yours affect y | C. Darwin …
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, Emma | (8) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (8) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Darwin, Emma | (14) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (14) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (6) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (6) |
