To Emma Wedgwood [27 November 1838]
Summary
CD and Erasmus continue to search for a house in central London. They have tea with the Carlyles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-445 |
To Emma Darwin 5 July 1844
Summary
Asks that in the event of his death, Emma should have the sketch of his species theory edited and published. Suggests possible editors, among them Lyell, Edward Forbes, and J. D. Hooker. [CD annotation on cover: "Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume Aug 1854".]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1844 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-761 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, F. J. …
- … V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570) Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma …
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood [after 11 March 1871] …
- … and was intended for Emma Darwin to copy in a letter to Wedgwood, whose nickname was Snow. …
To Alphonse de Candolle 25 May [1839]
Summary
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 25 May [1839] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
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 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 97: A7 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Charles Robert Darwin unstated [20 May 1864] William …
- … Wedgwood’s on seeing Menyanthes at Maer, Staffordshire; Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , who lived at Maer until 1847, had recently visited Down (see letter from Emma Darwin …
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: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … 219.1: 55 Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Hartfield [4 May 1863] William …
- … Josiah Wedgwood III and his wife Caroline, CD’s sister. According to Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … Wedgwood was 21 years old, Margaret 19, and Lucy 16. 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 …
- … Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that it had been a ‘beautiful day’ and that they had ‘walked to Brook on common’. Buck bean (see n. 4, above) flowers between April and June. The ‘Josselinas’ was a family nickname for the daughters of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [10 July 1865]
Summary
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4868 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [November 1856]
Summary
Writes about suitable mourning clothes and sale of house [Petleys, after death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood I].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2000 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1856. Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s older sister and CD’s cousin. …
- … use of Sarah Wedgwood’s phaeton, which would now cease (see Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). …
- … Wedgwood, CD’s aunt, had died on 6 November. Robert Bickersteth Mayor was the mathematics master and William’s housemaster at Rugby School ( Rugby School register ). Emma Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]
Summary
Writes of the extension to Down House.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
To W. D. Fox 2 July [1858]
Summary
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2300 |
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
Summary
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1805 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Rugby School. Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s brother. The daily reading in …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary). ‘Josselinas’ was evidently a family nickname for the daughters of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood …
- … Wedgwood, or ‘Snow’, aged 24, the daughter of Hensleigh and Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood, was ‘a young woman of extreme passions and fastidious principles’ (B. Wedgwood and H. Wedgwood 1980 , p. 259). Emma Darwin …
To G. J. Romanes 4 June [1876]
Summary
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 4 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10529 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To Solicitor? 1 October 1844
Summary
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1844 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-779 |
To John Murray [25? March 1868]
Summary
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [25? Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050F |
To Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Summary
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
| Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
To W. D. Fox 6 July [1858]
Summary
The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2304 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
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