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To Francis Darwin   30 July [1878]

Summary

Comments on function of bloom.

Describes the effect of water shortage on sleep movements in Porlieria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  30 July [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11635

Matches: 1 hit

  • … mention of Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood in Emma Darwin’s diary for August 1878 is a …

To Saba Holland   4 December [1854]

Summary

Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Saba Smith; Saba Holland
Date:  4 Dec [1854]
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1610F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 128: 11). Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (Elizabeth) was Emma Darwin’s sister. Sarah Elizabeth …

To T. H. Farrer   8 October 1880

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Questions the exact location of rooms and trenches at Abinger excavation [for Earthworms].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  8 Oct 1880
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12743

Matches: 1 hit

  • … it 8th instead of 9th. Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, was seriously ill; on 6 …

To J. D. Hooker   12–13 August [1863]

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Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.

Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12–13 Aug [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 202
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4266

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Langton , widower of Charlotte Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 180–1). CD had lent …

To Susan Darwin   3[–4] September 1845

Summary

"All about household and money matters." The family is now living on about £1000 per annum. Plans a new walk and additions to the house.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:  3[–4] Sept 1845
Classmark:  DAR 153: 109
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-913

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma Darwin’s brother. Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood , Emma’s …

To Charles Lyell   20 [June 1860]

Summary

Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.

Comments on free-will in animals.

Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".

Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.

Discusses Arctic flora.

Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 [June 1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2838

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1860 . Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s older sister. She lived in …

To Francis Darwin   [19 August 1878]

Summary

Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [19 Aug 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 271.2: 4v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11669

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Staffordshire, the home of Emma Darwin’s brother Frank Wedgwood and his family, from 15 to …

To William Erasmus Darwin   14 February [1862]

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Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.

Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.

Has sent Orchids MS to printers

and will work a little at dimorphism.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 Feb [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3447

Matches: 1 hit

  • … references are to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s eldest sister, and CD’s niece, …

To Thomas Salt   24 December 1851

Summary

Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Salt
Date:  24 Dec 1851
Classmark:  Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1465F

Matches: 1 hit

To Josiah Wedgwood III   [22 June – 10 August 1847]

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Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Josiah Wedgwood, III
Date:  [22 June – 10 Aug 1847]
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1043

Matches: 3 hits

  • … pp.  119, 140–1. Francis Wedgwood, brother of Josiah Wedgwood III and of Emma Darwin . …
  • … Josiah Wedgwood III and Erasmus Alvey Darwin were the trustees of Emma Darwin’s trust …
  • Wedgwood III, 14 August 1847. Charles Stokes , fellow of the Geological Society, was a stockbroker in Threadneedle Street in the City of London ( Modern English Biography ). CD’s Investment Book (Down House MS) records that Stokes purchased shares in the Leeds & Bradford Railway for Emma Darwin’ …

To Charles Lyell   14 August [1863]

Summary

Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.

Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].

Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.

George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].

Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  14 Aug [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4267

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Langton , widower of Charlotte Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 180–1). Henry Walter …

To T. H. Huxley   11 August [1878]

Summary

CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  11 Aug [1878]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11651

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Frank Wedgwood and his family, and returned home on 22 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …

To G. H. Darwin   17 [August 1878]

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He and Emma rejoice that GHD’s mathematical troubles are at an end. It is miraculous that he unconsciously followed the right course – like composing a sonata by a fluke.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  17 [Aug 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11663

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Staffordshire, the home of Emma Darwin’s brother Frank Wedgwood and his family, from 15 to …

To Francis Darwin   [17 August 1878]

Summary

Instructions to sow some seeds

and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.

Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [17 Aug 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11668

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Staffordshire, the home of Emma Darwin’s brother Frank Wedgwood and his family, from 15 to …

To W. E. Darwin   10 [December 1856]

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Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.

Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  10 [Dec 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2019

Matches: 2 hits

  • … to Emma Darwin’s diary, the Darwin boys stayed with Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood until …
  • Emma Darwin noted in her diary that after his school-term ended, George Howard Darwin went directly to the home of Hensleigh and Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood

To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin   13 [November 1856]

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Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Date:  13 [Nov 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1987

Matches: 4 hits

  • Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 106). Henrietta Litchfield later recalled that Sarah Wedgwood ‘lived …
  • Emma Darwin’s diary). These uncles were Emma’s brothers and her cousin, John Allen Wedgwood. …
  • Wedgwood II . She had moved to Petleys, a house in Down village, in 1847 (see Correspondence vol.  3, letter to Emma Darwin, [24 June 1846] and Emma
  • Darwin , then at Rugby School. Dated by the reference to the funeral of Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, who died on 6 November 1856. Sarah Wedgwood , CD’s and Emma’ …

To W. D. Fox    26 [August 1829]

Summary

If convenient, CD will visit WDF at Osmaston early in September. Went to Barmouth with his sisters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  26 [Aug 1829]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-70

Matches: 1 hit

To William Erasmus Darwin   11 [February 1858]

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Writes of domestic matters

and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  11 [Feb 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2215

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Meteyard 1875 , pp.  302–5). Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s brother. …
  • Wedgwood copy of the famous antique Roman vase purchased by the Duchess of Portland in 1784. The particular vase mentioned by CD was probably one of two owned by the family and may have been the one he acquired in 1844 following the death of Emma Darwin’ …

To Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood   28 June [1864]

Summary

Family matters; CD’s feelings on death of FW’s son [James Mackintosh Wedgwood, 1834–64].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:  28 June [1864]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.300)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4547

Matches: 3 hits

To Francis Darwin   17 October 1881

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Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".

Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  17 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13411

Matches: 1 hit

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