From Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
A draft letter [but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views.
CD has slightly revised parts in view of both approving and disapproving critics, but still remains convinced about his fundamental notions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871?] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8127 |
From Emma Darwin to V. L. Isitt [before 17 September 1871]
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: 3 hits
- … DAR 96: 101 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin unstated [before 17 Sept 1871] Virginia Lavinia …
- … Wedgwood 1980 ; letter from Emma Darwin to Henrietta Emma Darwin, [17 September 1871] (DAR …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) to Isitt’s visit from 18 to 20 September 1871. Emma may refer to Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood, …
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [25 February 1871]
Summary
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 390) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516F |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [7 April 1871]
Summary
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 388) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666F |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [14 April 1871]
Summary
Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).
CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).
CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [14 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 389) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7684F |
From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 3 February [1871]
Summary
Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.
| Author: | Robert Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8198 |
From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 9 February [1871]
Summary
Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.
| Author: | Robert Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8205 |
From Emma Darwin to Roland Trimen [22 August 1871]
Summary
CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7916 |
From H. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin [March 1871]
Summary
Possible quotations about shame for CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605G |
From Francis Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [before 4 January 1871]
Summary
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Jan 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7426 |
From E. M. Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin? [2–5 June 1871]
Summary
Further observations on expression of her dog.
| Author: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [2–5 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7786 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 15 September 1871
Summary
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 83–84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7945 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871]
Summary
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield 6 Queen Anne St, London [5 Nov 1871] Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/ …
- … 1871. Hensleigh and Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood . St George’s Hall was a function room in Langham Place, Regent Street, London. William George Clark , a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, had recently published a tract that was critical of Anglican orthodoxy ( ODNB ). Anne Parslow was probably Henrietta’s lady’s maid, and Elizabeth Pearce , who as Bessy Harding had been the Darwin …
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin 1 April 1871
Summary
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 68–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651 |
From L. C. Wedgwood to Elizabeth Darwin [7 March 1872 or later]
Summary
P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1872 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127 |
To F. E. E. Wedgwood 19 December [1871]
Summary
Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8110 |
From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871]
Summary
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605F |
Tasker, Caroline (1838–96)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood (Emma Darwin’s aunt) at The Ridge, Hartfield, 1861. Servant in East Grinstead, 1851. Cook to Charles and Charlotte Langton (Emma Darwin’s brother-in-law and sister) at The Grove, Hartfield, 1861. Married Samuel Miles as his second wife in 1867. Cook to S. E. Wedgwood in Down, Kent, 1871. …
From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (3) |
| Trimen, Roland | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (13) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (4) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (4) |
