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 W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 219. 1: 78 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [28 Oct 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … been identified. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s sister ( Darwin pedigree ). …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwood from Bromley station; see n. 9, below. According to Emma Darwin’s …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , 29 October 1862 and [15 April 1863], in DAR 219.1: 63 and 73). CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS) records two payments to Miss Buob in April and August 1863. Tatsfield is a village eight miles south-east of Croydon, three miles south-west of Down ( Survey gazetteer of the British Isles ). Mr Solomon has not been further identified. Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
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 Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [4 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, W. E. …
- … 219.1: 55 Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Hartfield [4 May 1863] William …
- … Josiah Wedgwood III and his wife Caroline, CD’s sister. According to Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … Wedgwood was 21 years old, Margaret 19, and Lucy 16. Emma also refers to Charles Langton , Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , and Charles Langton’s son, Edmund Langton , who was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge ( Freeman 1978 , Darwin …
- … Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that it had been a ‘beautiful day’ and that they had ‘walked to Brook on common’. Buck bean (see n. 4, above) flowers between April and June. The ‘Josselinas’ was a family nickname for the daughters of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood …
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 [before 11 September 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
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 …
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
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 William Erasmus Darwin 11 [February 1858]
Summary
Writes of domestic matters
and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2215 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Meteyard 1875 , pp. 302–5). Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s brother. …
- … Wedgwood copy of the famous antique Roman vase purchased by the Duchess of Portland in 1784. The particular vase mentioned by CD was probably one of two owned by the family and may have been the one he acquired in 1844 following the death of Emma Darwin’ …
To W. E. Darwin 9 May [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3145 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Mackintosh Wedgwood and to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Emma Darwin recorded in her …
- … Wedgwood and his family lived at 1 Cumberland Place, Regent’s Park. Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood, the nineteen-year-old son of Hensleigh and Fanny Wedgwood , came to Down on 1 May 1861 and stayed until 6 May. According to Emma’s diary, George Howard and Francis Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin [14 October 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [14 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 July 1863]
Summary
Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4199 |
To W. E. Darwin [15 March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6067 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 May [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4495 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 3 October [1851]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct [1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1456 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Home of Emma’s brother, Francis (Frank) Wedgwood , near …
- … Wedgwood , who lived at Petleys, Down. According to Henrietta Litchfield , they were ‘dear friends’ of the Darwin children ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 106). CD’s Account book (Down House MS) shows payments on 27 October 1851 to Isaac Withers Laslett and John Lewis , bricklayer and carpenter, respectively, for ‘alterations in top Rooms & Stairs’ of Down House. According to Emma …
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 |
To W. E. Darwin [27 February 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13035 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |