skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains "Darwin, Emma"

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
Darwin and Emma in keywords disabled_by_default
2455 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: Prev  1 2 3 4 5   ...  Next

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   30 [March 1864?]

thumbnail

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

To Emma Darwin   [18 April 1851]

thumbnail

Summary

Reports on Anne’s condition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [18 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1401

Matches: 5 hits

To Emma Darwin   [21 April 1851]

thumbnail

Summary

An evening report on Annie Darwin’s somewhat improved condition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [21 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1408A

Matches: 5 hits

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   1 September [1875?]

thumbnail

Summary

Reports on health [of unidentified woman].

EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  1 Sept [1875?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10146

Matches: 6 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … From E.  A.  Darwin to Emma Darwin   1 September [1875? ] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma
  • … DAR 105: B126 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 1 Sept [1875? ] Emma
  • … s sister. In a letter to Leonard Darwin of 26 October 1875 , Emma wrote: ‘Aunt Caroline is …

From Emma Darwin   [23 April 1851]

thumbnail

Summary

Tells of the hopes raised by CD’s letter of Monday regarding Anne’s health.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1411

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From Emma Darwin   [23 April 1851] …
  • … DAR 210.13: 26 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [23 Apr 1851] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … Southampton before proceeding to Down ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 132). Caroline refers to the …
  • Darwin , then nearly 2 1 2 years old. The final paragraph, written in pencil, refers to a letter from Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood (preserved in DAR 210.13) dated ‘Tuesday 21 st ’ (a mistake for 22 April) that reads: My dearest Emma— …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   25 [November 1865]

thumbnail

Summary

Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.

Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  25 [Nov 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B119–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4942

Matches: 10 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … From E.  A.  Darwin to Emma Darwin   25 [November 1865] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … DAR 105: B119–20 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 25 [Nov 1865] Emma
  • … and the letter from Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin, 20 November 1865 . CD evidently sat for a …
  • … Photo’ on 2 March 1866. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD did not visit …
  • … book (Down House MS)). See letter from Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin, 20 November 1865 . …
  • … See letter from Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin, 20 November 1865  and nn.  2 and 3. In his …
  • … physician Henry Bence Jones . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD and Emma had …
  • Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma

From Emma and Charles Darwin   13 May 1865

thumbnail

Summary

CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 May 1865
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4832

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. Darwin, C. R. …
  • … DAR 210.10: 26 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 May 1865 Charles …
  • … paid, We desire our children to pay conjointly this annuity. — Ch. Darwin | Emma Darwin …
  • … From Emma and Charles Darwin   13 May 1865 …

From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes   24 December [1880]

Summary

News of the opening of the reading room at Down. CD is pleased Innes was interested in his book; both Innes’s facts are new to him.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  24 Dec [1880]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12935F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Innes, J. B. …
  • … From Emma Darwin to J.  B. Innes   24 December [1880] …
  • … M. Stecher collection) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin 24 Dec [1880] Down John Brodie Innes …

From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin   [14 October 1881]

thumbnail

Summary

Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

The text on EAD’s gravestone.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  [14 Oct 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 210.3: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13400F

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, G. H. …
  • … From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin   [14 October 1881] …
  • … DAR 210.3: 24 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [14 Oct 1881] George Howard Darwin …
  • … from 20 to 27 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The Irish politician Charles …
  • … were travelling in Italy ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 2 October [1881] ( …
  • Darwin , George was organising the sale by auction of the contents of Erasmus’s former home at 6 Queen Anne Street, London. Henrietta Emma
  • Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . The particular edition of John Milton ’s works has not been identified. Elizabeth Pearce . An entry in CD’s Account book–cash accounts (Down House MS) records a payment of £16 11 s. 3 d. to ‘Taylors removing Furniture’ on 18 November 1881; the firm has not been further identified. No earlier correspondence about the inscription for Erasmus Alvey’s gravestone has been found, but see the letter from G. H. Darwin, …

Allen, Jessie (1777–1853)

Matches: 5 hits

  • … 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915. 1,2,3,7,8,29 Sismondi, J. C. L. S. de Darwin, Emma
  • … Allen. Married Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi in 1819. Emma Darwin’s aunt. …
  • Emma Darwin (1915) …
  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …

From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin   [21 March 1866]

Summary

Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [21 Mar 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5078

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Hooker, J. D. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma
  • … From J.  D.  Hooker to Emma Darwin   [21 March 1866] …
  • … DAR 102: 67 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [21 Mar 1866] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … Wednesday after 19 March was 21 March. Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. Frances …
  • … Hooker and J.  D.  Hooker visited Down in June 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Hooker arrived at Down on Saturday 24 March 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

From Emma Darwin to G. S. Ffinden   [22? November 1873]

Summary

Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:  [22? Nov 1873]
Classmark:  Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9121F

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Ffinden, G. S. …
  • … the school assembles. With kind regards to Mrs Ffinden | very truly yours | Emma Darwin
  • … From Emma Darwin to G.  S.  Ffinden   [22? November 1873] …
  • … Library (P/123/25/3/1/1) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [22? Nov 1873] George Sketchley …
  • … of a dispute with Ffinden over the use of the schoolroom in a letter from Emma Darwin to …
  • … the letter from E.  F.  Lubbock to Emma Darwin , [ c . 29 November 1873] and n.  2, the …
  • … Horace Darwin , postmarked ‘29 November 1873’ (DAR 258: 585). Emma was in London from 8 to …

To Emma Darwin   [3 June 1844]

thumbnail

Summary

Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.

CD has been "wonderfully strong".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [3 June 1844]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-726

Matches: 7 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … To Emma Darwin   [3 June 1844] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … a servant at Down House. Anne Elizabeth Darwin , Emma and CD’s oldest daughter. Minny: …
  • … DAR 210.8: 23 Charles Robert Darwin Down [3 June 1844] Emma
  • … Endorsed by Emma Darwin : ‘1844 Down— I had been at Betley’. Betley Hall, Staffordshire, …
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma

From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin   26 October [1877]

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  26 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11209F

Matches: 5 hits

From Emma Wedgwood   [3 January 1839]

Summary

Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.

Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [3 Jan 1839]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 158
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-482

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
  • … DAR 204: 158 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Maer [3 Jan 1839] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … is preserved in DAR 219. See also Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 141–2. The excisions made from CD’ …

From Emma Darwin to V. L. Isitt   [before 17 September 1871]

thumbnail

Summary

Feels it unlikely that CD could employ a secretary but he is prepared to experiment if Miss I. would care to come to Down for a period.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Virginia Lavinia Isitt
Date:  [before 17 Sept 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7410

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Isitt, V. L. …
  • … From Emma Darwin to V.  L.  Isitt   [before 17 September 1871] …
  • … DAR 96: 101 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin unstated [before 17 Sept 1871] Virginia Lavinia …
  • … is established by the reference in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) to Isitt’s visit from 18  …
  • … Jesse , Alfred Tennyson’s sister (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 ; letter from Emma Darwin to …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin, [17 September 1871] (DAR 219.9: 95)). Isitt only stayed for two …
  • … probably stayed at Down House with the Darwin family; Emma wrote to her daughter Henrietta …

From Emma Darwin to John Tyndall   7 October [1875]

Summary

An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  7 Oct [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10185F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Tyndall, John …
  • … From Emma Darwin to John Tyndall   7 October [1875] …
  • … DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin 7 Oct [1875] Down John Tyndall …
  • … have a remnant of summer to receive you. Believe me | very truly yours | Emma Darwin. …
  • … visit (see n. 2, below). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Thomas Henry Huxley , …

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

To Emma Darwin   [31 October 1847]

thumbnail

Summary

Has had two bad days with boils.

Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [31 Oct 1847]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1132

Matches: 7 hits

  • Darwin, Emma
  • … To Emma Darwin    [31 October 1847] …
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … DAR 210.8: 26 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [31 Oct 1847] Emma
  • … the text have been traced over in ink by Emma Darwin . Where CD’s original alterations are …
  • Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma
  • … Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma’s sister. Robert Waring Darwin , who was an enthusiastic …
Document type
letter (2319)
people (132)
bibliography (4)
Correspondent
Date
1823 (1)
1825 (1)
1826 (2)
1829 (2)
1832 (4)
1833 (2)
1834 (1)
1835 (1)
1836 (4)
1837 (1)
1838 (21)
1839 (14)
1840 (5)
1841 (6)
1842 (12)
1843 (6)
1844 (9)
1845 (11)
1846 (9)
1847 (11)
1848 (13)
1849 (9)
1850 (8)
1851 (34)
1852 (7)
1853 (7)
1854 (11)
1855 (10)
1856 (34)
1857 (24)
1858 (36)
1859 (36)
1860 (91)
1861 (58)
1862 (143)
1863 (137)
1864 (88)
1865 (72)
1866 (100)
1867 (57)
1868 (113)
1869 (55)
1870 (53)
1871 (109)
1872 (84)
1873 (85)
1874 (83)
1875 (86)
1876 (53)
1877 (57)
1878 (83)
1879 (132)
1880 (90)
1881 (119)
1882 (19)
Page: Prev  1 2 3 4 5   ...  Next