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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

Matches: 1 hit

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

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1853] ). Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s sister, had arrived at Down …

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

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

From E. W. Fithian   30 May 1878

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Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.

Author:  Edward William Fithian
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 May 1878
Classmark:  DAR 202: 101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11535

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Emma Darwin’s daughter. Elizabeth Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s sister, and lived in Down. On …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Clarke had married Cicely Mary Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s niece. Henrietta Emma Litchfield , …

From T. H. Farrer   30 October 1879

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Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Oct 1879
Classmark:  DAR 164: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12279

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  • … 23 October [1879] ). Godfrey Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s nephew, and had married his cousin …

To J. D. Hooker   9 February [1865]

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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

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  • … vols.  11 and 12). Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister ( Darwin pedigree ). …

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

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To John Murray   [25? March 1868]

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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

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  • … Place, the house of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, in London, from 11  …

To Edward Alfred Smith   [11–31 March 1868]

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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

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  • … London, the house of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s sister, from 11 to 31 March  …

From J. D. Hooker   22 November 1880

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Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.

Praise for Wallace’s Island life

and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.

Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 104: 142–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12838

Matches: 1 hit

  • … was the prime minister. Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, had died on 8 November …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Emma Darwin took Henrietta Emma Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s house in Hartfield on …

From T. H. Farrer   4 June 1868

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Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 June 1868
Classmark:  DAR 164: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6229

Matches: 2 hits

To T. H. Farrer   1 October 1880

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1880 and enclosure). Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, lived in Down village; …

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 …

From B. J. Sulivan   9 June 1879

Summary

Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 June 1879
Classmark:  DAR 177: 309
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12097

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  • … and Diana Langton . Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin ’s sister, had been ill from around …

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

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

From Anthony Rich   20 November [1880]

Summary

Thanks for Movement in plants.

Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.

Author:  Anthony Rich
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 176: 144
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12833

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  • … 1882, pp. 14–15). Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, had died on 8 November 1880 ( …

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

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

To Susan Darwin   3[–4] September 1845

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"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 …
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