From Henrietta Emma Darwin [1 August 1863]
Summary
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 189: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260F |
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: 4 hits
- … collection Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 23 Oct [1863? ] Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) …
- … From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863? ] …
- … particularly ill from October 1863 into 1864, and Emma Darwin wrote several letters on his …
- … 11, letter from Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast, 12 December [1863] . Pollock’s letter has …
From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863] …
- … DAR 177: 97 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 25 Sept [1863] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 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 24 September [ …
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: 5 hits
- … DAR 93: B1–2 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern 23 Sept [1863] John Scott …
- … From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863] …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD was repeatedly sick in the period between 20 and 23 September 1863. …
- … See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . The reference is to …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD stayed at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, from 3 September to 12 or 13 October 1863. …
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: 7 hits
- … DAR 115: 215 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [7 Dec 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests that …
- … D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). See n. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863] …
- … December was a Monday. Emma Darwin’s diary entries on 5 and 6 December 1863 record that CD …
- … CUL. Emma Darwin probably refers to the letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 . CD refers …
- … see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] , and Appendix IX). …
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 |
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: 7 hits
- … Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Hartfield [4 May 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863] …
- … 23 May [1863] ). On Sunday 3 May 1863, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that it …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins stayed at Leith Hill Place from Wednesday 6 May 1863 …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwin family stayed at Hartfield Grove in Hartfield, Sussex, the home of Charles Langton , between 27 April and 6 May 1863. …
- … 1863, Emma recorded in her diary that CD had been ‘poorly & languid all week’. CD had been in London for ten days in February (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma and Horace Darwin . …
- … 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 pedigree , Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ). In 1863, …
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
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 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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 28 Dec 1863 George Maw …
- … From Emma Darwin to George Maw 28 December 1863 …
- … 1863. Sir Mr Darwin being too unwell to write himself begs me to tell you that he has had the greatest satisfaction in signing the paper & forwarding it as you wish— I am Sir | Yours very truly | Emma …
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 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 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] and n. 5. William Henslow …
- … letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] , and n. 23, above. Richard …
- … See letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] . CD evidently refers to …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 16 [November 1863] . See Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for her daily …
- … but see letter from Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew, 21 November [1863] and n. 3. The note …
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863
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 |
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 Edward Cresy 27 April 1863
Summary
CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4130 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: 2232. …
- … See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: 2232, …
- … on 7 April 1863 when Cresy visited Down House for lunch (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [4 May 1863]. See also letter to …
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 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: 6 hits
- … 53 Fox 142a) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern Wells [6–27 Sept 1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 , and Appendix IX). None of …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863] …
- … By Charles and Emma Darwin. ] [Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed. ] [1863. ] Darwin …
- … See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863] and n. 4, and Appendix IX. …
- … and the letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] , and by the address. …
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 |
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 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: 5 hits
- … DAR 219. 1: 78 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [28 Oct 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863] …
- … to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood arrived on 27 October 1863. The …
- … from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , 29 October 1862 and [15 April 1863], in DAR …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William arrived at Malvern Wells on 13 September and left on 25 September 1863. …
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