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From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin   [13 January 1861]

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Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [13 Jan 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3046F

Matches: 11 hits

  • Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
  • … DAR 185: 117 Charles Robert Darwin Emma
  • … From Charles and Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin   [13 January 1861] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin [13 Jan 1861] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … January 1861, and left on 21 January ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Emma was mistaken …
  • … see n.  3, below) and references in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242; see nn.  2 and 8, …
  • … George Howard Darwin , who, according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), went to London on …
  • … 1860] (DAR 251: 2226), letters from Emma Darwin to W.  E. Darwin, [30 January 1861] (DAR …
  • … further identified. London Bridge station. Emma Darwin added this note to CD’s letter. The …
  • … House with William on 14 January 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); to the London home …
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma

To W. E. Darwin   4 November [1861]

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Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  4 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3307

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … The year is given by the reference to Emma Darwin’s visit to Charlotte Langton (see n.  4, …
  • … has not been found. Charlotte Langton , Emma Darwin’s eldest sister, was staying in St …
  • … in the hope that the sea air would improve her health ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178). …
  • … According to her diary, Emma Darwin visited Charlotte from 5 to 9 November 1861. Charlotte …

To W. E. Darwin   [27 October 1861]

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Discusses affairs at Down and Southampton.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [27 Oct 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3302

Matches: 5 hits

  • … House from 25 to 28 October 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). William Darwin had taken lodgings …
  • … the references to Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin’s trip to London and to Emily Catherine …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin had gone to London on 21 October  …
  • … 1861 and Emma returned on 26 October ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Emily Catherine Darwin , CD’s …
  • … introducing William (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 12 October [1861] ). Emma and …

To W. E. Darwin   12 October [1861]

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Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.

Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  12 Oct [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3284

Matches: 4 hits

  • … croquet’. An entry for 4 September 1861 in Emma Darwin’s diary reads ‘Etty played Croqet’, …
  • … the illustrations for Orchids ( Emma Darwin’s diary). William Darwin was in Southampton …
  • … and Hampshire Bank as a partner ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The conditions of the partnership …
  • … was based. See n.  2, above. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Sowerby stayed until 12  …

To W. E. Darwin   9 May [1861]

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Discusses family and domestic matters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  9 May [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3145

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Joseph Parslow was the Darwins’ butler. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that she went to …
  • … Place, Regent’s Park. Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin returned to Down on 17 May. William …
  • … his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that Alfred Allen ( …
  • … 6 May. According to Emma’s diary, George Howard and Francis Darwin were home from school …
  • Darwin family dentist. CD’s Account book (Down House MS) shows a number of payments to him in 1861, including one on 8 July 1861. Emma’ …

To W. E. Darwin   21 and 22 April [1861?]

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Returns [an unspecified] enclosure referring to "a most wonderful cure".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  21 and 22 Apr 1861
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3124

Matches: 3 hits

  • … is suggested by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s illness (see n.  3, below). The …
  • … This sentence was added in pencil. Emma Darwin’s diary for 1861 is full of references …
  • … to W.  E.  Darwin, [24 January 1861]). On both 21 and 22 April 1861, Emma recorded that …

To William Erasmus Darwin   [24 January 1861]

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Writes of Henrietta’s illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [24 Jan 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3051

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Hooker, 15 January [1861]), Henrietta Emma Darwin had again fallen seriously ill. Edward …
  • … Kent, was the Darwins’ local physician. Emma Darwin’s diary records that he visited Down …

To W. E. Darwin   30 November [1861]

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Reports on state of family’s health.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  30 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3835

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Darwin, 12 October [1861] and n.  5). Emma Darwin . Camilla Ludwig , the Darwin children’s …

To W. E. Darwin   1 [June 1861]

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Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  1 [June 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3171

Matches: 2 hits

  • … to John Lubbock, 1 June [1861] ) is in Emma Darwin’s hand. CD marked it at the top in blue …
  • … is in DAR 210.6. It is a copy, in Emma Darwin’s hand, of a letter written by George …

To W. E. Darwin   22 October [1861]

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Tells of a shooting competition at Down.

Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  22 Oct [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3294

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin attended a performance of Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s …
  • … on Tuesday evening, 22 October 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The major attraction of this …
  • … the Kent Rifle Volunteers. See also letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [27 October 1861] . Emma and …

From W. E. Darwin   [17 November 1861]

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Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [17 Nov 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.5: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3320

Matches: 2 hits

  • … and Hampshire Bank, George Atherley . Emma Darwin’s elder sister, Charlotte Langton , had …
  • … Christmas, arriving on 24 December ( Emma Darwin’s diary). John Henry Forrest , who lived …

To W. E. Darwin   15 November [1861]

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Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  15 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3319

Matches: 1 hit

  • … London on Wednesday, 20 November 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). He read a paper on the two …

To W. E. Darwin   6 [June 1861]

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Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  6 [June 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 69–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3178

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1861] ). The enclosure is a copy in Emma Darwin’s hand of a letter from George Atherley to …
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