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To W. E. Darwin   [before 11 September 1857]

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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

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  • … s diary). Sarah Elizabeth (Eliza) Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s cousin, died in London on 11  …

To W. E. Darwin   [17 February 1857]

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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

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  • … 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 J. D. Hooker   1 July [1857]

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George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".

Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.

Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 July [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 198
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2116

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  • Wedgwood and his family in Barlaston, Staffordshire. They later travelled to Shrewsbury, the children returning to Down on 4 July 1857 and Emma on 6 July ( Emma Darwin’ …

To John Lubbock   12 [August 1857]

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Invites JL to dine and meet J. S. Henslow.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  12 [Aug 1857]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 19 (EH 88206468)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2396

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  • Emma Darwin recorded in her diary on 11 August 1857: ‘I came to London to Eliza’. Sarah Elizabeth (Eliza) Wedgwood, …

To W. E. Darwin   13 May [1857]

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Discusses family health and affairs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  13 May [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2091

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  • Wedgwood and his wife Jessie and daughters Louisa and Caroline (Carry) came on 16 May; and Frances Mosley Wedgwood , wife of Francis (Frank) Wedgwood , and her daughter Cecily joined them on 18 May (Emma Darwin’ …
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