From Emma Darwin to Ernst Haeckel 22 September [1876]
Summary
Arranges for EH’s visit to Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 41 [9894]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10614 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 June [1876]
Summary
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 4 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10529 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876]
Summary
Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 406 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10457 |
To W. D. Fox 26 May [1876]
Summary
Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.
James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 26 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … and Emma Darwin visited Hopedene, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, home of Hensleigh Wedgwood , …
- … Wedgwood, 20 April 1876 ). Leith Hill Place in Surrey was the home of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III . William Erasmus Darwin’s riding accident happened on 10 May ( Emma Darwin’ …
- … Wedgwood , CD’s sister, had fallen ill during a visit to Felixstowe, probably in August 1875 (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, …
To H. E. Wedgwood [28 May 1876]
Summary
Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.
Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [28 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10514 |
From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876
Summary
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515G |
To C. S. Wedgwood 20 April 1876
Summary
Grieves over poor account of her health. Emma and Henrietta are also ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10461 |
To S. A. Cecil 8 June 1876
Summary
Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sackville Arthur Cecil |
| Date: | 8 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | Hermitage Fine Art, Monaco (dealers) (7–8 July 2020, lot 751) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535H |
To Ernst Haeckel 14 May 1876
Summary
Book [Webb and Berthelot] has reached CD.
Sorry EH dissents from Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 14 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 38 [9891]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10506 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10478 |
From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876
Summary
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Cecil, S. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Cecil, S. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
