To Emma Darwin [13 March 1842]
Summary
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-623 |
To Emma Darwin [1 July 1841]
Summary
Family news. Mainly concerned about Doddy’s [W. E. Darwin’s] health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [1 July 1841] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-600 |
To Emma Darwin [3 July 1841]
Summary
The happy family life at Shrewsbury. CD is looking so well his father would not have known there was anything the matter with him. The year’s accounts come to £1380.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [3 July 1841] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-601 |
To Emma Darwin [19 April 1851]
Summary
Detailed account of progress of Anne’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1402 |
To Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Summary
The house at 12 Upper Gower Street is theirs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-463 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [29 Dec 1838] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood, [7 January 1839] , it is clear that the marriage of CD and Emma was originally to take place on 24 January, but the date was changed to 29 January. Macaw Cottage—so called because of the gaudy colours of the walls and furniture ( Emma Darwin ( …
To Emma Wedgwood [7 August 1838]
Summary
His [first] railway journey was disappointing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-423 |
To Emma Wedgwood [20 January 1839]
Summary
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-489 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … DAR 210.8: 12 Charles Robert Darwin Athenaeum Club [20 Jan 1839] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood, for ever after it will be Emma D. I wont forget the ring, & do not you forget to keep a bed for me, or lose the Licence. — Good Bye | My own dear Emma | Chas Darwin …
To Emma Darwin [21 April 1851]
Summary
Further reports on Anne’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1408 |
To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
To Emma Darwin [25 April 1858]
Summary
Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.
Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.
Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2413 |
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
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … DAR 210.8: 27 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [20–1 May 1848] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood III , Emma Darwin’s brother. Probably Thomas Wedgwood , younger brother of Josiah Wedgwood II and CD and Emma’ …
- … Emma Darwin were written during CD’s visit to Shrewsbury, 17 May to 1 June 1848. Emily Catherine Darwin , CD’s younger sister. John William Lubbock , CD’s neighbour in Down. Susan Darwin had been to Lincolnshire to visit the property she owned, which was close to CD’s Beesby farm. See letter to John Higgins, 6 June [1848] . Francis Parker, born in 1829, third son of Marianne and Henry Parker and nephew of CD and Susan. Hensleigh Wedgwood , …
To Emma Darwin [20 April 1851]
Summary
Reports on Anne’s health throughout the night and from 8 a.m. through to 4.30 p.m.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1406 |
To Emma Darwin [7–8 February 1845]
Summary
Mainly news of the three children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [7–8 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-810 |
To Emma Darwin [3–4 February 1845]
Summary
News of the children and books he is reading.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [3–4 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-821 |
To Emma Wedgwood 2 [–3 January 1839]
Summary
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [–3 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-481 |
To Emma Darwin [5 April 1840]
Summary
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-564 |
To Emma Wedgwood [21 November 1838]
Summary
Recounts his misadventures on the train journey back to London. Tells of a visit to the FitzRoys and a friendly letter from Lyell. Whether CD and Emma should live in central London or in the suburbs is a perplexing problem, much discussed by relatives and friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8:5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-440 |
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
To Emma Wedgwood [30 November – 1 December 1838]
Summary
His search for a London house. He visits the Lyells, who give solemn advice to choose their London acquaintances carefully.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Nov – 1 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-448 |
To Emma Wedgwood [31 December 1838 –] 1 January 1839
Summary
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-466 |
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