From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Scott, John …
- … From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863] …
- … DAR 93: B1–2 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern 23 Sept [1863] John Scott …
- … his return home when he will write himself— I am dear Sir | Yours truly | Emma Darwin …
- … is established by the address; according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD stayed at …
- … Scott, 21 September [1863] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD was repeatedly …
- … 23 September 1863. See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . …
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Newton, Alfred …
- … From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863] …
- … Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 4 Nov [1863] Alfred Newton …
- … 26–[7] March 1864 . The entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 4 November 1863 is ‘in …
- … He begs to be very kindly remembered to you. I am dear Sir | yours truly | Emma Darwin …
From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Pollock, Frederick …
- … From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863? ] …
- … Private collection Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 23 Oct [1863? ] Jonathan Frederick ( …
- … him to accept your very kind invitation I am | Sir yours obediently | Emma Darwin …
- … ill from October 1863 into 1864, and Emma Darwin wrote several letters on his behalf; see, …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast, 12 December [1863] . …
From Emma Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 17 December [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4358 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Emma Darwin to George Maw 28 December 1863
Summary
CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 28 Dec 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Fox, W. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863] …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern Wells [6–27 Sept 1863] …
- … An appeal. [By Charles and Emma Darwin. ] [Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed. ] [1863. ] …
- … Ellen Sophia Fox . See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863] and n. …
- … between this letter and the letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] , …
- … see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 , and Appendix IX). None …
- … here have been found. Emma refers to Francis Sacheverel Darwin and to his son-in-law, …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [4 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 219.1: 55 Charles Robert Darwin Emma …
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Hartfield [4 May 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … Grove was 4 May 1863. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwin family stayed …
- … Josiah Wedgwood III and his wife Caroline, CD’s sister. According to Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … 23 May [1863] ). On Sunday 3 May 1863, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that it …
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma …
- … vol. 11, Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma and Horace Darwin . Emma apparently refers to the …
- … Emma also refers to Charles Langton , Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , and Charles Langton’s son, Edmund Langton , who was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge ( Freeman 1978 , Darwin …
- … Darwins stayed at Leith Hill Place from Wednesday 6 May 1863 until 13 May, when they returned to Down House. On Tuesday 5 May 1863, Emma …
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4322 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lubbock, John Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863 …
- … baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 24 Oct 1863 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … The letter from Emma Darwin to Lubbock has not been found. …
- … According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD returned to Down from Malvern Wells, …
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863] …
- … DAR 219. 1: 78 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [28 Oct 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … station; see n. 9, below. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Sarah Elizabeth …
- … and 12 or 13 October 1863. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William arrived at …
- … Hythe, near Southampton ( letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [after 7 …
- … and Wiltshire 1867–75). Henrietta Emma Darwin was William’s sister. William Reaves (or …
- … of a horse (see letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [February …
- … Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s sister ( Darwin pedigree ). Elizabeth Darwin …
- … at the beginning of the year (see letters from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , 29 …
From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Summary
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Scott, John Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863] …
- … DAR 177: 97 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 25 Sept [1863] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letters from Emma Darwin to John Scott , 23 September [1863] …
- … and 24 September [1863] . Letters from Emma Darwin to John Scott , 23 September [1863] and …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 24 September [1863]
Summary
JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.
CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 24 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4304 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hooker, J. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863] …
- … DAR 115: 215 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [7 Dec 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). See n. 2, …
- … below. In 1863, 7 December was a Monday. Emma Darwin’s diary entries on 5 and 6 December …
- … and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests …
- … of Cruelty to Animals (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] , …
- … in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Emma Darwin probably refers to the letter from Asa …
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Haast, Julius von …
- … From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863] …
- … MS-Papers-0037-051-3) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 12 Dec [1863] John Francis Julius ( …
- … Canterbury. I am dear Sir | yours truly | Emma Darwin I am sorry to say that Mr Darwin has …
- … and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Joseph Dalton Hooker …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
Matches: 4 hits
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hildebrand, Friedrich …
- … From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863] …
- … dealers), 16 March 2018. ) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 20 Nov [1863] Friedrich Hermann …
- … what it is here With Mr Darwin’s kind regards I am | Sir yours very truly | Emma Darwin …
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Wedgwood, Emma | (18) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Lubbock, John | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
Hooker, J. D. | (21) |
Scott, John | (9) |
Fox, W. D. | (7) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (111) |
Hooker, J. D. | (28) |
Darwin, Emma | (24) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (24) |
Darwin, W. E. | (11) |