From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]
Summary
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
| Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3681 |
From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]
Summary
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
| Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674 |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [17 December 1836]
Summary
The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1836] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-328 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Wedgwood’s trip to Edinburgh, see Correspondence vol. 2, letter from E. C. Darwin, …
- … Wedgwood and Louisa Holland to F. E. E. Wedgwood, [21 and 24 November 1836] . Penelope has not been identified. James Mackintosh Wedgwood . Basil Hall and Hall 1836 . See Hall 1836 , pp. 44–7. Buckland 1836 . Susan Elizabeth Darwin . See Correspondence vol. 1, letter from E. C. …
To C. C. Babington 2 September [1862]
Summary
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3707 |
To John Scott 2 July [1863]
Summary
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 2 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4229 |
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Summary
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
To Sophy Wedgwood 24 March [1878–80]
Summary
Asks her to observe seedlings of Neottia breaking the surface to see whether the flower stems grow straight up or form arches, and whether they secrete water that softens the surrounding ground.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1878-80] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 4251: 333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11442 |
Langton, Charles (1801–86)
Matches: 1 hit
- … letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,16,18,19,20,21,23,24,WSL,25,26,27,28,29,30 Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, Charlotte Darwin, C. R. Darwin, E. …
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
From L. C. Harrison to Emma Darwin [before 1 July 1874]
Summary
Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9525 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Harrison, [1 July 1874] . Harrison’s father was Josiah Wedgwood III . The quotation is from the second or small edition of English botany by James Edward Smith and James Sowerby (J. E. Smith and Sowerby [1832]–46, 1: 17). Pinguicula is the genus of butterworts; CD had been performing experiments to determine their digestive ability (see, for example, letter …
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 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [15 June 1872?]
Summary
Worm-casts on a ridged hill.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 June 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Wedgwood to Elizabeth Darwin, [7 March 1872 or later] ). CD had first sent out enquiries concerning furrows and other forms of ridges in 1871, but most of his requests were made early in 1872 as part of his investigation into the transformation of landscape through the action of earthworms (see for example Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Francis Wedgwood, 4 January 1871 , and letter to Archibald Geikie, 27 December [1871] , and this volume, letter from W. E. Darwin, [1 January 1872] , and letter …
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1863]
Summary
Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B188–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4147 |
Matches: 1 hit
To L. C. Wedgwood 21 January [1872]
Summary
Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8171 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood, 20 January [1872]. See postcard from L. C. Wedgwood, 20 January [1872]. See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Henry Johnson, 23 December 1871 , and Earthworms , pp. 221–8. Johnson, a Shrewsbury schoolfriend of CD’s, was in charge of the excavation of the Roman ruins at Wroxeter, and offered to make observations for CD. CD also refers to William Erasmus Darwin ; see letter from W. E. …
From W. E. Darwin 6 January 1881
Summary
Passes on legal advice.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12980F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter. Also that there is no occasion to appoint new Trustees under the circumstances, so that I have written to ask if there is any objection to Southampton Dock Deb: Stock and to say that it be invested in his name. The Lawyer says the articles should be specified in the Codicil They are I suppose Family papers & deeds Autograph Voyage of Beagle " Memoirs Scientific Library Portraits of C. Darwin " E. Darwin " R Darwin " J. Wedgwood ? …
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood ware, and was particularly interested in medallions (see Correspondence vols. 11 and 12, and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1866] ). Hooker visited Down from 23 to 25 June 1866; his wife, Frances Harriet Hooker , visited from 23 to 29 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Henrietta Emma Darwin was in France (see letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c. …
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
