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From Emma Darwin to John Scott   23 September [1863]

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CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  23 Sept [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B1–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4302

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From Emma Darwin to John Scott   24 September [1863]

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JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.

CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  24 Sept [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B3–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4304

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From John Scott to Emma Darwin   25 September [1863]

Summary

Regrets CD’s poor health.

"Do not return Primula MS."

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  25 Sept [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4307

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From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox   [6–27 September 1863]

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Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [6–27 Sept 1863]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4294

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From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox   [29 September 1863]

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Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.

CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.

Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [29 Sept 1863]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4312

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To W. D. Fox   4 [September 1863]

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His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.

Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  4 [Sept 1863]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 140)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4292

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  • Wedgwood (see Correspondence vol.  5, letter to F.  M.  Wedgwood, 25 April [1851] ); there is a sketch showing the location of Anne’s grave in the Priory churchyard at Great Malvern in DAR 210.13: 39. Emma Darwin

From J. D. Hooker   15 September 1863

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Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.

JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Sept 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 163–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4306

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  • Wedgwood works were at Etruria, near Hanley, one of the principal towns of the Potteries; Biddulph Grange is approximately seven miles north of Hanley. Henrietta Emma Darwin . …