To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … DAR 210.8: 27 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [20–1 May 1848] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood III , Emma Darwin’s brother. Probably Thomas Wedgwood , younger brother of Josiah Wedgwood II and CD and Emma’ …
- … Emma Darwin were written during CD’s visit to Shrewsbury, 17 May to 1 June 1848. Emily Catherine Darwin , CD’s younger sister. John William Lubbock , CD’s neighbour in Down. Susan Darwin had been to Lincolnshire to visit the property she owned, which was close to CD’s Beesby farm. See letter to John Higgins, 6 June [1848] . Francis Parker, born in 1829, third son of Marianne and Henry Parker and nephew of CD and Susan. Hensleigh Wedgwood , …
From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [14 October 1881]
Summary
Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.
The text on EAD’s gravestone.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [14 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.3: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13400F |
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 [c. February 1839]
Summary
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-471 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 9 December [1872]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B124–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8666 |
From Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin 20 November 1865
Summary
Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4940 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Cresy, Edward, Jr Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … 247 Edward Cresy, Jr Metropolitan Board of Works 20 Nov 1865 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Darwin , had served as chairman of the council of the Ladies’ College, Bedford Square (Bedford College) since it was founded in 1849. Emma’s sister-in-law Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood …
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 January 1839]
Summary
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-482 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 March 1849]
Summary
The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
Family news.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 Mar 1849] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1233 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
To Emma Darwin [20 April 1851]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [20 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1406 |
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 Emma Darwin to W. D. Whitney 9 May [1875]
Summary
CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
Date: | 9 May [1875] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9974F |
To Emma Darwin [7–8 February 1845]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [7–8 Feb 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-810 |
From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 3 February [1871]
Summary
Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.
Author: | Robert Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8198 |
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 |
To Emma Darwin [3–4 February 1845]
Summary
News of the children and books he is reading.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [3–4 Feb 1845] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-821 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 May 1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe 14 January [1875]
Summary
Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 14 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814G |
Darwin, Emma | (85) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (85) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Darwin, E. A. | (8) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Darwin, Emma | (105) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (105) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Fox, W. D. | (6) |
1836 | (4) |
1838 | (16) |
1839 | (11) |
1840 | (2) |
1841 | (2) |
1842 | (3) |
1843 | (1) |
1844 | (3) |
1845 | (2) |
1846 | (2) |
1847 | (1) |
1848 | (6) |
1849 | (1) |
1851 | (14) |
1858 | (2) |
1861 | (2) |
1862 | (3) |
1863 | (24) |
1864 | (16) |
1865 | (5) |
1866 | (2) |
1867 | (7) |
1868 | (7) |
1869 | (1) |
1870 | (1) |
1871 | (13) |
1872 | (5) |
1873 | (5) |
1874 | (7) |
1875 | (5) |
1876 | (1) |
1877 | (3) |
1878 | (2) |
1879 | (4) |
1880 | (4) |
1881 | (1) |
1882 | (2) |