From W. E. Darwin to Emma and/or Charles Darwin c. 20–5 September 1877
Summary
Description of their English dinner companions at a foreign hotel.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | c. 20-25 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146F |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 26 October [1877]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209F |
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin were away from home from 8 June until 4 July, visiting first Caroline Sarah and Josiah Wedgwood …
- … Wedgwood , Emma’s sister, lived in Down. The letters to her have not been found. Francis played the bassoon. His ‘bassoon man’ was William Henry Stone , a physician at St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from Emma Darwin …
To G. J. Romanes 27–8 May [1877]
Summary
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 27–8 May [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10973 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
From W. D. Fox 29 November [1877]
Summary
Congratulates W. E. Darwin, who is about to be married,
and CD for the LL.D. conferred upon him by Cambridge.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11261 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood and Susan Elizabeth Darwin were CD’s sisters. Susan had died in 1866; Caroline had been in poor health (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to W. D. Fox, 26 May [1876] ). George Howard Darwin had published on cousin marriage ( G. H. Darwin 1875 ; see also G. H. Darwin 1873b ). Ellen Sophia Fox . CD had received an honorary LLD from Cambridge University on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’ …
letter | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |