To Emma Darwin [27–8 May 1848]
Summary
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27–8 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1180 |
To Emma Darwin [23 May 1848]
Summary
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [23 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1178 |
To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848]
Summary
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [22 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1177 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848] …
- … DAR 210.8: 28 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [22 May 1848] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 1848, with the note: ‘(pretty)’ (DAR 119; Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV). Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, who lived in Down village. William Erasmus Darwin , CD and Emma’ …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary records that her sisters Elizabeth Wedgwood and Charlotte Langton , and Charlotte’s son Edmund, were staying at Down. The Globe , a London evening paper founded in 1803 and a leading Whig organ until 1866 when it became Conservative. The editions preceding this letter presented a cynical view of the aims of the new National Assembly established on 4 May 1848 …
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Summary
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848] …
- … DAR 210.8: 30 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [25 May 1848] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 1848. See Addresses delivered on different public occasions by H.R.H. the Prince Albert (1857), pp. 1–10. Aunt Sarah, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood . CD used the word ‘nigger’ playfully to suggest that the status of a husband was that of a slave ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, [9 November 1836] ; Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix IV, ‘Darwin’ s notes on marriage’). Emma …
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Summary
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848] …
- … DAR 210.8: 27 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [20–1 May 1848] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … to Emma Darwin were written during CD’s visit to Shrewsbury, 17 May to 1 June 1848. Emily …
- … 1848 . Free will is discussed on pp. 63–78. Katherine Elizabeth Sophy, six-year-old daughter of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III and CD’s niece. Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma Darwin’ …
To John Higgins 6 June [1848]
Summary
Mentions his account; visit to Lincolnshire by his sister [Susan Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 6 June [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1184 |
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
From Emma Darwin [22–3 April 1851]
Summary
Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22–3 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1410 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [after 12 July 1851]
Summary
Inquires about the nature of some money recently paid to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1213 |
From F. C. Donders 14 March 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Descent.
Sends a copy of his oratio inauguralis on De harmonie van het dierlijke leven [1848] in which he espoused evolution, but did not see the influence of natural selection.
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7582 |
From W. E. Darwin [5 and 8? April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 and 8 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6149 |
To Francis Boott 20 August 1848
Summary
CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Boott |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1848 |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1195 |
To T. M. Story-Maskelyne 27 August [1875–81]
Summary
Explains that the plant is not consuming the flies, but that they die becasue they get stuck in the flowers when fertilising them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 88953/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10136F |
To Edward Cresy [20 July 1848]
Summary
Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.
Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [20 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1192 |
From Richard Strachey 25 August 1873
Summary
Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.
| Author: | Richard Strachey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9026 |
To Maria Hooker [17 December 1848]
Summary
Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].
Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1848] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1209 |
To E. A. Wheler 26 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for information and stories about Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11955F |
From Charles Lyell 1–2 May 1856
Summary
Urges CD to publish his theory with small part of data.
Corrects names of land shells on list of shells picked up at Down.
Discusses transport of Ancylus from one river-bed to another by water-beetle.
"I hear that when you & Hooker & Huxley & Wollaston got together you made light of all Species & grew more & more unorthodox."
Mentions discussion of old Atlantis by Oswald Heer.
Comments on Helix and Nanina.
Mentions beetle discovered with small bag of eggs of water-spider under wing.
Madeira evidence favours single species birth-place theory.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1–2 May 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1862 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Darwin, Emma | (8) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
