From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 1 September [1875?]
Summary
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1875?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10146 |
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 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875]
Summary
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10732 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 26 October [1877]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209F |
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
From Emma Darwin to T. W. Higginson 19 May [1878]
Summary
CD will be glad to see TWH on Friday next, and invites him to stay the night.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Date: | 19 May [1878] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 201) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11516F |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
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 |
To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [22 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1177 |
To Emma Darwin [23 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [23 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1178 |
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [25 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
To Emma Darwin [27–8 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [27–8 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1180 |
From Emma Darwin to Nicolai Mengden 8 April 1879
Summary
Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
Date: | 8 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | Dr Mirko Majer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11981 |
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
From G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [30 April 1879]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [30 Apr 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12102 |
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 |
From W. C. Williamson to Emma Darwin 2 September 1880
Summary
Asks whether CD would object to a deputation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union.
Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12705 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1880]
Summary
News of the opening of the reading room at Down. CD is pleased Innes was interested in his book; both Innes’s facts are new to him.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935F |
From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [14 October 1881]
Summary
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 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [20 April 1882]
Summary
Informs JDH of CD’s death.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769F |
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