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From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin   29 March 1869

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Pleased to come on 17th.

Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.

Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.

Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].

Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  29 Mar 1869
Classmark:  DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6685

Matches: 2 hits

From Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams to Henrietta Emma Darwin   [after 14 October 1869]

Summary

Describes expression of her baby when crying.

Author:  Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  [after 14 Oct 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 180: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6535

Matches: 3 hits

  • Wedgwood/Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams Down Ampney, Cricklade [after 14 Oct 1869] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma
  • Wedgwood Williams, who was born on 14 April 1869 (Birth certificate, General Register Office, Dorking). The reference to the ‘Young Person’ has not been identified. According to Emma Darwin’ …
  • Wedgwood III , on 7 October 1869. Down Ampney is south of Cirencester in Gloucestershire; Cricklade is a couple of miles south of Down Ampney and is in Wiltshire. Emma and Elizabeth Darwin . …

From J. B. Innes   20 October 1869

Summary

Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.

Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Oct 1869
Classmark:  DAR 167: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6948

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  • Wedgwood , who had purchased Tromer lodge, a property in the centre of Down village, about one mile from Down House. Innes had already expressed an interest in acquiring a part of the land for a parsonage (see Correspondence vol.  16, letter from J.  B.  Innes, 30 January 1868 ). Innes refers to Henrietta Emma Darwin . …