From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From Emma Darwin to George Maw 28 December 1863
Summary
CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 28 Dec 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 24 September [1863]
Summary
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 |
From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
From Emma Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 17 December [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4358 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
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 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4322 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
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 |
letter | (24) |
Darwin, Emma | (18) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (18) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Scott, John | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | |
Wedgwood, Emma | |
Scott, John | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Matthew, Patrick | (1) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Pollock, Frederick | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |