From Caroline Wedgwood [11 November 1838]
Summary
Expresses her pleasure at CD’s engagement.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-431 |
To Caroline Wedgwood [May 1838]
Summary
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [May 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-411 |
From Emma Wedgwood [26 December 1838]
Summary
Responds to his "business letter" about the maids, then chides herself for feeling dull and disagreeable when she has had everything all her life.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-462 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood, [20 December 1836] . See Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, [7 December 1836] , and letter from Catherine Darwin, 27 [December 1836] . Harriet Martineau had invited CD to meet the actress Fanny Butler , better known as Fanny Kemble. Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Alexander John Scott published his Lectures expository and practical on the Epistle to the Romans in 1838 ( …
To William Ogle 25 December 1871
Summary
Sends notes on left- and right-handedness from observations made on his eldest son as an infant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 25 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 13 (EH 88205911) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8120 |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
