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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

Matches: 2 hits

From Emma Darwin to John Murray   [before 17 December 1863]

Summary

CD too ill to write.

Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.

He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  [before 17 Dec 1863]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4352

Matches: 2 hits

From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox   [6–27 September 1863]

Summary

Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [6–27 Sept 1863]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4294

Matches: 2 hits

To Emma Darwin   [20–1 May 1848]

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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]

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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

Matches: 3 hits

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

Matches: 2 hits

From Emma Darwin   [c. February 1839]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   9 December [1872]

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Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  9 Dec [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B124–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8666

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 3 hits

From Ellen Harrison to Emma Darwin   [January 1878]

Summary

On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.

Author:  Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [Jan 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 166: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11304

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hooker, J. D. …
  • … DAR 115: 232 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [28 Apr 1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • Emma Darwin ; see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n.  15. Godfrey Wedgwood

To Emma Darwin   [20 April 1851]

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Reports on Anne’s health throughout the night and from 8 a.m. through to 4.30 p.m.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [20 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1406

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 2 hits

From Emma and Charles Darwin   13 May 1865

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CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 May 1865
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4832

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 2 hits

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

Matches: 2 hits

To Emma Darwin   [7–8 February 1845]

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Mainly news of the three children.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [7–8 Feb 1845]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-810

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma
  • … DAR 210.8: 22 Charles Robert Darwin Down [7–8 Feb 1845] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • Darwin, [8 December 1843] . See also Correspondence vol.  4, letter to John Higgins, 10 September [1847] . Sarah Elizabeth (Eliza) Wedgwood was Emma’ …
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