From J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin 8 March 1872
Summary
Down parish and family matters.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8238 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Innes, J. B. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin 8 March 1872 …
- … DAR 167: 31 John Brodie Innes Milton Brodie 8 Mar 1872 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Crabbe, George. 1878. Church restoration. Fraser’s Magazine 17: 449–57. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … Emma Litchfield and her husband were staying with CD and Emma Darwin at a rented house, 9 …
- … Street, Portland Place, London ( Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 254). John William Brodie Innes , …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 9 December [1872]
Summary
Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8666 |
Matches: 6 hits
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [13 May 1872]
Summary
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [13 May 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8320 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 19 October 1872
Summary
On his mother’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8565 |
From A. J. Cupples to Emma Darwin 8 November [1872]
Summary
Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.
| Author: | Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8611 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Douglas, A. J. Cupples, A. J. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From A. J. Cupples to Emma Darwin 8 November [1872] …
- … Anne Jane Douglas/Anne Jane Cupples Guard Bridge 8 Nov [1872] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … of the dog has been found; there is no other letter from A. J. Cupples to Emma Darwin in …
- … Darwin Archive–CUL. CD mentioned dogs’ howling to music in Descent 2: 333. Catherine Glen lived in Aberfoyle, a village in Stirling, Scotland. Campbeltown is on the peninsula of Kintyre, western Scotland. Stirling is presumably here the Scottish town, not the county. John McGill , professor of Hebrew, died in 1871. Skye is an island in the Hebrides. Henrietta Emma …
To H. E. Litchfield 25 July 1872
Summary
Thanks for her pains over corrections [for Expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 25 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8427 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 July 1872 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 30 June 1872 notes ‘W.M.C. party went’; there is no …
- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … 1868 , p. 72). The postscript is in Emma Darwin’s hand. F. : father. In Expression , p. …
- … Wedgwood , was at Down on 2 August 1872. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …
- … invited the group to tea at Down House from 1873 onwards ( Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 262). …
- … of the six home counties 1872). Emma Darwin uses a symbol for yesterday: a circle with a …
- … at birth ( ODNB ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Frances Emma Elizabeth …
To H. E. Litchfield 13 May 1872
Summary
Wishes to insert R. B. Litchfield’s remarks [into Expression] but will not give them as his own.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 13 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8321 |
To A. R. Wallace 14 December [1872?]
Summary
Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1872?] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8677 |
To W. D. Fox 16 July [1872]
Summary
Is correcting proofs for Expression.
Family news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8413 |
From J. D. Hooker to W. E. Darwin [13 June 1872]
Summary
Asks WED to direct bearer of letter to CD, as he has an address [memorial from men of science to W. E. Gladstone] for him to sign.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8379 |
To T. H. Huxley [17] December [1872]
Summary
Plans to see THH in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [17] Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 308) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8682 |
To John Lubbock [after 21 March 1872]
Summary
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [after 21 Mar 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 137–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8128 |
To Herbert Spencer 10 June [1872]
Summary
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]
and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 10 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8380 |
From J. D. Hooker [5 February 1872?]
Summary
Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Feb 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 105–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8200 |
From Chauncey Wright 2 September 1872
Summary
Arranges to visit CD at Down.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8507 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks GHD for extracts, but says the subject of music is beyond him.
Suggests that GHD deliberate over one or two sentences of his paper on dress ["Developments in dress", Macmillan’s Mag. 22 (1872): 410–16].
Refers to prospective marriage of Amy [Ruck and CD’s son Francis].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8308 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1872]
Summary
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8675 |
To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 18 September [1872]
Summary
CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8525 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 June [1872]
Summary
Has signed the memorial by men of science with real pleasure. Fears it may be too severe. He told Lady Derby about JDH’s troubles. She said she would tell Lord Derby what he had said.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 220–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8385 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (5) |
| Airy, Hubert | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (77) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
