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To W. E. Darwin   25 [November 1856]

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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]

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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 Charles Lyell   10 November [1856]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin. Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood. Mentions work on his " …
  • Wedgwood (see n.  3, below). Anne Susan Horner , Charles Lyell’s mother-in-law. Sarah Wedgwood died on 6 November 1856 ( Emma Darwin ( …

To J. S. Henslow   22 January [1856]

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … a close friend of Emma Darwin’s father Josiah Wedgwood II , had died in 1855. William …

To William Erasmus Darwin   [26 February 1856]

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • Emma Darwin was in Hartfield, Sussex, where her sisters Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood

From George Howard Darwin   [28 November 1856]

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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]

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1977 . Sarah Wedgwood lived at Petleys, near Down House. On 3 September 1856, Emma Darwin

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 Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood   18 [August 1856 – January 1858]

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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