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From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 [March 1864?]
Summary
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [Mar 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4374 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Emma …
- … From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 [March 1864? ] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … ibid. , pp. 275, 279). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD started taking ‘ …
- … 1865, pp. 270–2, and letter from William Jenner to Emma Darwin, [17 March 1864] ). …
- … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma …
- … DAR 105: B118 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 30 [Mar 1864? ] Emma …
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864] …
- … DAR 219.1: 80 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin [17 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … her nephew Edmund Langton . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William and George …
- … B52). See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. …
- … 4 May 1863]. In her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin noted the hot weather on 17 and 18 …
- … May 1864. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) her sister Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood …
- … Emma’s nephew, was suffering from incurable cancer (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [15? …
- … Darwins were on visiting terms (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter from R. M. Rolfe, 28 November 1862) . Emma …
From William Jenner to Emma Darwin [17 March 1864]
Summary
Proposes to examine CD at Down.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Mar 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4368 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Jenner, William Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From William Jenner to Emma Darwin [17 March 1864] …
- … DAR 168: 49 William Jenner London, Harley St, 8 [17 Mar 1864] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … The date is based on a record in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) of a visit by Jenner on …
- … 20 March 1864 was 17 March. No letter from Emma Darwin to Jenner on this subject has been …
- … February 1864 (DAR 210.6: 115), Henrietta Emma Darwin wrote that her parents were ‘rather …
- … had contacted Jenner. In addition, Emma Darwin mentioned in a letter to William Erasmus …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hooker, J. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864] …
- … DAR 115: 224 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 17 Mar [1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … 5 March [1863] ). See also letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] and …
- … to supply from Kew (see letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] , and …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hooker, J. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864] …
- … DAR 115: 220 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 15 Feb [1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … from John Scott, 12 [February 1864] . Emma Darwin refers to John Scott and to the Linnean …
- … From 30 January to 2 February 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recorded good days and …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Fox, W. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864] …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [6 May 1864] William Darwin Fox …
- … CD on 20 March 1864; his second visit was on 10 April ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … See also letter from William Jenner to Emma Darwin, [17 March 1864] and n. 2, and letter …
- … Darwin from 4 to 14 February 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD and Fox met on 13 …
From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864]
Summary
Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.
Sends photograph of CD.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13791 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Kindt, Hermann …
- … From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 14 Oct [1864] Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt …
- … Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) Emma …
- … Emma probably enclosed the photograph taken earlier in the year by William Erasmus Darwin ( …
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 97: A7 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Charles Robert Darwin unstated [20 May 1864] William …
- … From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864] …
- … recently visited Down (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and …
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 21 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4722 |
From J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin 23 January [1864]
Summary
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4395 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 16 May [1864]
Summary
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4497 |
From John Brodie Innes to Emma Darwin 16 January [1864]
Summary
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4387 |
From Emma Darwin to Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter 23 December [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 442 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4723 |
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [18 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … DAR 210.6: 118 Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
- … W. E. Darwin, [16 March 1864] , n. 3). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) for …
- … Mackintosh Wedgwood. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and n. …
- … cowslip in this letter, the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] , and …
- … regarding Menyanthes , see the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] . …
- … Henrietta Emma Litchfield Down [18 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]
Summary
Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 31 Mar 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4364 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the best chemist in the world’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 118 n. 2; see also Correspondence …
- … 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 …
- … this letter and the letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864? ] . Erasmus …
- … March 1864 (see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864? ] and n. 4). …
From Henrietta Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [16 March 1864]
Summary
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Mar 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3633 |
From William Jenner 14 August 1864
Summary
CD’s urine sample was probably alkaline when passed. The deposit was phosphate of lime. Prescribes a new antacid and continuation of podophyllin. He can judge CD’s state as described by his letter.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4589 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … had visited Down on 20 March, 10 April, and 22 May 1864 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Emma Darwin may have taken this sample to Jenner when she visited him in London on 5 July …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD ‘ …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6, and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6 …
- … Royle and Headland 1865, pp. 636–8). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD began …
- … podophyllin, see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [ March 1864? ] and n. 4, …
- … prescription has not been found; however, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 17 August …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, Emma | (11) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (11) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (70) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (28) |
| Darwin, Emma | (16) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (16) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (12) |
