To Thomas Salt 24 December 1851
Summary
Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1851 |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1465F |
To J. F. Fisher 8 August [1878]
Summary
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Fisher |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11645 |
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To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6505 |
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
To Hugo de Vries [10 or 11 August 1878]
Summary
Arranges for HdeV to call.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [10 or 11 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 4a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11643 |
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- … letter of 8 August [1878] in a now missing letter. The Darwins left Down on 7 August 1878 and visited Leith Hill Place, Surrey, the home of CD’s sister, Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , and her family. From 12 to 15 August, they stayed at Abinger Hall, Abinger, Surrey, the home of Thomas Henry and Katherine Euphemia Farrer, who was Emma …
From E. A. Darwin [15? April 1864]
Summary
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15? Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4482 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
Willets, Anna (1768/9–1845)
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- … Wedgwood I. Married Swinton Colthurst Holland (1777–1827) at Knutsford, Cheshire, in 1805. Emma Darwin (1904) 1: 185 n.1 England, Cheshire parish registers, 1538–2000 (Familysearch.org, accessed 14 June 2021) Global, Find a Grave Index for burials at sea and other select burial locations, 1300s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 August 2022) Gloucestershire, England, Church of England burials, 1813–1988 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2021) Bibliography Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. …
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
To Susan Darwin 3[–4] September 1845
Summary
"All about household and money matters." The family is now living on about £1000 per annum. Plans a new walk and additions to the house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 3[–4] Sept 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-913 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To W. D. Fox [17 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks WDF for interesting letter about turkeys. Would be grateful for information on fertility of the hybrids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [17 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 133) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3555 |
To Francis Darwin [19 August 1878]
Summary
Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 4v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11669 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Summary
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
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 |
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- … letter from Josiah Wedgwood II and Emma to R. W. Darwin, 15 November 1838). Emma and Elizabeth were the only unmarried children of Bessy and Josiah Wedgwood II . Emma’s marriage would leave Elizabeth alone with the task of nursing the ailing Bessy Wedgwood. See Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 12 and Wedgwood …
From Hensleigh Wedgwood 25 September [1842]
Summary
Gives an account of his father’s illness.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1842] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-644 |
To John Scott 2 May [1863]
Summary
Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.
CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.
Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 2 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4137 |
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
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 |
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 |
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| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
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