From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley 12 November [1879]
Summary
ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314F |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
From C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 12 April 1868
Summary
Observations on expression in her baby daughter.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6112 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 25 May [1839]
Summary
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 25 May [1839] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512 |
To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
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 |
To Emma Wedgwood [20 January 1839]
Summary
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-489 |
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
To Emma Wedgwood [31 December 1838 –] 1 January 1839
Summary
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-466 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 29 March 1869
Summary
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6685 |
Willets, Anna (1768/9–1845)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 …
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). De Vries evidently replied to CD’s 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 …
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