From Catherine Darwin 8 July 1841
Summary
Describes the appearance and occurrence of imperfect flowers of "Hex.[?] Trigynia".
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1841 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-603 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [25? April 1851]
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25? Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1421 |
From Catherine Darwin 27 September 1833
Summary
Mainly Shropshire news of family and friends.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-217 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … loves, believe me | ever, dearest Charles | Y r very affecte Sister | E. Catherine Darwin …
- … From Catherine Darwin 27 September 1833 …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 204: 88 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 27 Sept 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
From Catherine Darwin 29 October 1833
Summary
Finds his journal interesting; they will read it aloud to Papa on winter evenings. They all regret the long time the journey is taking.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-225 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Catherine Darwin 29 October 1833 …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 204: 89 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … tell you—so I must stop— Bless you dear Charley—ever y rs affect e | E. Catherine Darwin …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 29 Oct 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [27 April 1851]
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1423 |
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
From Catherine Darwin [26 October 1825]
Summary
Shrewsbury news.
Glad he likes Edinburgh.
They have been going to plays performed by a travelling company he knows.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Oct 1825] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-17 |
From Catherine Darwin 15 January [1826]
Summary
Family news. Visits to the Owens at Woodhouse and the Parkers at Overton.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan [1826] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-21 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Catherine Darwin 15 January [1826] …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 204: 23 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … believe me to be | Ever y r affectionate | E. Catherine Darwin. My best love to Ras. — …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Overton 15 Jan [1826] Charles Robert Darwin …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [c. June 1823]
Summary
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".
She misses him and the laboratory.
Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. June 1823] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Emily Catherine Darwin [ c. June 1823] …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 204: 1 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton [Maer] [ c . June 1823] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Catherine’ or ‘Catty’ by the family. Dated from the references to the Cambridge tour, which was planned for early July 1823 (see letter from E. A. Darwin, …
- … Catherine (Kitty) and Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) , near Barlaston, Staffordshire. Mrs Wedgwood had lived there until her death in 1815; Kitty died there in 1823; Sarah Elizabeth moved in 1827 to Camp Hill, a house built for her near Maer Hall. In the Autobiography , p. 45, CD remembers observing insects ‘with some little care’ as early as 1819, but gives his second cousin, William Darwin …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
From Catherine Darwin 29 October 1834
Summary
Family and local news. Tom Eyton will marry. Tells of the great fire of the Houses of Parliament.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-260 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Catherine Darwin 29 October 1834 …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 204: 92 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … again. Papa’s & all our best of loves. | Yrs ever | Catherine Darwin Papa is very well. — …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 29 Oct 1834 Charles Robert Darwin …
From Catherine Darwin 29 January 1836
Summary
They have been reading about the wreck of the Challenger; much impressed by Capt. FitzRoy’s bravery.
The W. D. Foxes have a daughter. Family news.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-296 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Catherine Darwin 29 January 1836 …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 97 (ser. 2): 28–9 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … love,—and beg me to tell you how they long for September. | Yrs ever | Catherine | Darwin. …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 29 Jan 1836 Charles Robert Darwin …
From Catherine Darwin 27 [December 1836]
Summary
News of family and friends, Harriet Martineau’s soirée; funds deposited for him.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Dec 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-336 |
From Catherine Darwin 30 October 1835
Summary
Erasmus has received CD’s journal and two boxes; six large boxes are at Plymouth. Had feared them lost in wreck of Challenger.
News of family and friends.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-287 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Catherine Darwin 30 October 1835 …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 97 (ser. 2): 22–3 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … God Bless you— | Y r ever affectionate | E. Catherine Darwin Susan is at Overton. …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 30 Oct 1835 Charles Robert Darwin …
From Catherine Darwin 14 October [1832]
Summary
Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree
and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].
Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-187 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Catherine …
- … From Catherine Darwin 14 October [1832] …
- … Langton, Catherine Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 204: 86 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … of you. | Papa’s and all our best loves, to our dear Charles. | Y rs | Catherine Darwin …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 14 Oct [1832] Charles Robert Darwin …
From Catherine Darwin 26[–7] April [1832]
Summary
Writes chiefly of family affairs: Erasmus’ visit, further delay in Fanny Owen’s marriage, Sarah [Owen] Williams’ illness, Arthur Owen’s sad departure for India; cholera.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26[–7] Apr [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-167 |
From Catherine Darwin 29 May 1833
Summary
She and Susan are in London, and she writes of people they have seen or had news of: Captain Harding, E. A. Darwin, Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood, Emma Wedgwood, the Langtons, Josiah Wedgwood and Aunt Bessie, Fanny Biddulph and child, and the Evanses of Portrane.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-208 |
From Catherine Darwin 27 November 1833
Summary
Mentions letters sent in parcel and those from CD received by Fox and Henslow. Adds news of family and friends.
Appreciation of his journal. She hears that CD’s "theory of the Earth" is the same as Lyell’s in 3d volume [of Principles of geology (1833)].
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-232 |
From Catherine Darwin 27–30 January 1834
Summary
News of family and friends: W. D. Fox will marry in the spring; private theatricals at Eaton house-party.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27–30 Jan 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-236 |
From Catherine Darwin 25 July [– 3 August] 1832
Summary
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-179 |
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- … From Catherine Darwin 25 July [– 3 August] 1832 …
- … DAR 204: 85 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily …
- … always & believe me, with every body’s Love, y r most affect te | E. Catherine Darwin. …
- … Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832 Charles Robert Darwin …
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