From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 24 April [1873]
Summary
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8874 |
From Emma Darwin to G. S. Ffinden [22? November 1873]
Summary
Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | [22? Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9121F |
From G. S. Ffinden to Emma Darwin 24 December 1873
Summary
Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.
Author: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9189F |
From G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 24 November 1873]
Author: | James William Colvile |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [before 24 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9157F |
From E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin [c. 29 November 1873]
Summary
Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [c. 29 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8700 |
To M. D. Conway 11 January [1873]
Summary
Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].
Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 11 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8730 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down School Board |
Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 November 1873
Summary
Pleased that GHD will help with second edition of Descent. Cautions him not to alter strength of CD’s expression or improve the style too much.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9159 |
To George Cupples 7 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 7 June [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.428) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8936 |
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- … Wedgwood III and Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , from 4 to 12 June (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD refers to James Hutchison Stirling . See letter from George Cupples, 4 June 1873 and nn. 2 and 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson . Charles Eliot Norton and Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton had visited in 1868 and 1869 ( Emma Darwin’ …
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Colvile, J. W. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (4) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Ffinden, G. S. | (2) |
Colvile, J. W. | (1) |