From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 [March 1864?]
Summary
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 30 [Mar 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4374 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … DAR 105: B118 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 30 [Mar 1864? ] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood’s temporary cheer has not been determined; however, Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s comments about his cousin may be related to the health of her brother, James Mackintosh Wedgwood (see n. 3, below). Erasmus refers to his cousin James Mackintosh Wedgwood, who was suffering from incurable cancer (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , pp. 274, 279). In March 1864 he was in Italy, but he was brought home in early April 1864; he died on 24 June 1864 ( ibid. , pp. 275, 279). According to Emma Darwin’ …
From William Jenner to Emma Darwin [17 March 1864]
Summary
Proposes to examine CD at Down.
Author: | William Jenner |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4368 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 21 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4722 |
From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864]
Summary
Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.
Sends photograph of CD.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 14 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13791 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
From J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin 23 January [1864]
Summary
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4395 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 219.1: 80 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin [17 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) her sister Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood visited …
- … Wedgwood, Emma’s nephew, was suffering from incurable cancer (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [ …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 May 1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
From John Brodie Innes to Emma Darwin 16 January [1864]
Summary
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4387 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 16 May [1864]
Summary
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 16 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4497 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 97: A7 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Charles Robert Darwin unstated [20 May 1864] William …
- … Wedgwood’s on seeing Menyanthes at Maer, Staffordshire; Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , who lived at Maer until 1847, had recently visited Down (see letter from Emma Darwin …
From Emma Darwin to Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter 23 December [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
Date: | 23 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4723 |
letter | (16) |
Darwin, Emma | (11) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (11) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | |
Wedgwood, Emma | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
Jenner, William | (1) |
Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |