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 10 [December 1856]
Summary
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 |
To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
From George Howard Darwin [28 November 1856]
Summary
Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 2222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records, ‘G. very poorly’. Yonge 1856 . Sarah Morrey had been cook to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , …
- … Emma Darwin (1915), 2: 106). Petleys was auctioned and the servants departed in mid-December 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 6, letter to W. E. Darwin, 25 [November 1856] ). Henry Hemmings had been a servant of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood ( …
To W. D. Fox 3 October [1856]
Summary
Finds his grief over his daughter Anne’s death still strong.
Is following Lyell’s advice about publishing his species doctrine. It is not to be a sketch, however, but as perfect as his 19 years of work will allow. His work on pigeons has been invaluable on many points. "No subject gives me so much trouble as means of dispersal of terrestrial production in the oceanic islands."
Finds "most remarkable differences" in skeletons of rabbits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 3 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1967 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
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 Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood 18 [August 1856 – January 1858]
Summary
Is flattered by a proposal that he undertake some reviewing work, but has many years’ work in prospect on his present book on species and varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | 18 [Aug 1856 - Jan 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1810 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Wedgwood were active in London’s Unitarian circles; Hensleigh Wedgwood also occasionally reviewed books for the Quarterly Review . Francis Darwin corrected the copyist’s ‘sould’ to read ‘soul’. It has not been possible to identify the specific illnesses to which CD refers. In August 1856 Henrietta Darwin was ill, and Emma Darwin …
- … Darwin Down 18 Aug 1856 18 Sept 1856 18 Oct 1856 18 Nov 1856 18 Dec 1856 18 Jan 1857 18 Feb 1857 18 Mar 1857 18 Apr 1857 18 May 1857 18 June 1857 18 July 1857 18 Aug 1857 18 Sept 1857 18 Oct 1857 18 Nov 1857 18 Dec 1857 18 Jan 1858 Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh/Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood …
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |