To Emma Wedgwood [7 August 1838]
Summary
His [first] railway journey was disappointing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-423 |
From Emma Wedgwood [21–2 November 1838]
Summary
Writes lovingly of small events since he left Maer. Fears their opinions may differ on "the most important subject", religion, but is grateful for his openness about his "honest & conscientious doubts".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21–2 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-441 |
Matches: 2 hits
To G. R. Gray [6 December 1838]
Summary
Sends proofs [of Birds, no. 2]. Asks GRG to check Latin accents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (BPL 885 / Darwin s.a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-454 |
From Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Summary
Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-464 |
From W. E. Darwin [7 October 1881]
Summary
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13325F |
From Emma Wedgwood [25–6 November 1838]
Summary
Responds to items in CD’s letter, just received. Suggests parts of London where he might look for a house. Gives news of friends and relatives.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 or 26] Nov 1838 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-444 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [May 1844]
Summary
Family financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [May 1844] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13855 |
To Emma Wedgwood [27 November 1838]
Summary
CD and Erasmus continue to search for a house in central London. They have tea with the Carlyles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-445 |
From E. A. Darwin 26 April 1853
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516 |
From Robert Waring Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood II 13 November 1838
Summary
RWD’s happiness that Emma has accepted CD’s proposal of marriage.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1838 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-433 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood, Mrs Josiah Wedgwood II . R. W. Darwin’s animosity towards Harriet Martineau was well known in the family (see Wedgwood 1980 , pp. 232–3). Bessy, apparently to tease him, had expressed the hope that CD would become engaged to Martineau (see letter from Josiah Wedgwood II and Emma to R. W. Darwin, 15 November 1838). …
From Anthony Rich 7 March 1880
Summary
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12524 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood ; see Emma Darwin (1904) 1: 74 and 266. Horace Darwin married Ida Farrer on 3 January 1880 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). The Chinese often referred to foreigners as ‘outside barbarians’ ( Gützlaff 1838, 2: 542 ). In December 1879, Rich had procured Thomas Henry Huxley’s The crayfish ( T. H. Huxley 1880a ); see Correspondence vol. 27, letter …
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: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood who lived in Seabridge. Robert and Frances Crewe Wedgwood, Jessie’s brother and sister-in-law. John Allen Wedgwood, Jessie’s brother. Sarah Elizabeth (Eliza) Wedgwood, Jessie’s sister. Emma taught a class on Sundays for the children of Maer. A reading book, containing four stories she wrote and had printed for use in the school, is preserved in DAR 219. See also Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 141–2. The excisions made from CD’s letter to Emma Wedgwood, [31 December 1838 –] …
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter requested the aid of the Council of the Geological Society ‘in finding some fit person’ to make a geological survey of the colony, its legislature having granted a sum towards defraying the expenses ( Geological Society of London , Council Minutes, 7 November 1838, CM 1/5, p. 59). Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton , 2d Marquess of Northampton had been elected a vice-president of the British Association at the Newcastle meeting. CD did not, in fact, go until 9 November; the occasion was his proposal to Emma Wedgwood (‘ …
To J. D. Hooker 15 [July 1847]
Summary
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [July 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1080 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood. Emma was recuperating following the birth of Elizabeth Darwin on 8 July. The Duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chiswick House, which were leased out to the Horticultural Society; William Cavendish , Duke of Devonshire, was president of the Horticultural Society, 1838–58. See Fletcher 1969 , p. 79. The reference to John Stevens Henslow and ‘the conference’ probably relates to Hooker’s wish to marry Henslow’s daughter, Frances Harriet. As the next letter …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Gray, G. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
