From Charlotte Langton 4 December [1838]
Summary
Expresses her pleasure in his forthcoming marriage. "I don’t think anybody ever had so delightful a reception into a family as Emma."
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-450 |
From Charlotte Langton 14 November [1838]
Summary
Expresses her pleasure and satisfaction in CD’s forthcoming marriage.
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-436 |
From Charlotte Wedgwood 22 September [1831]
Summary
Sends congratulations and good wishes; feels the Wedgwoods bear much responsibility, since he would not have accepted the Beagle appointment had he not been at Maer "that 1st. of September".
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-133 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Caroline Darwin 29 December [1835]
Summary
CD’s fame is spreading: she quotes Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16], and a passage in the Athenæum.
Adds news of family and friends.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1835] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 26–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-291 |
From Charlotte Langton 27 [September] 1832
Summary
Rejoices in what she hears of his voyage and his pleasures in it.
Writes of her new life, and of their relatives and friends.
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept] 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-186 |
From Charlotte Wedgwood 12 January – 1 February 1832
Summary
Writes about Hensleigh Wedgwood’s marriage to Frances Mackintosh and her own engagement to Charles Langton. Also gives news of other relatives and friends.
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 and 29 Jan 1832 and 1 Feb 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-155 |
To W. D. Fox 25 [August 1830]
Summary
Has been in N. Wales two weeks, having gone with Hope and two Eytons. Not many good insects; disillusioned with Hope, found him egotistical and stupid.
Hopes WDF will stay in Cambridge until after CD arrives.
Some entomological news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-82 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
From Caroline Darwin (with postscript by Marianne Parker) 12[–31] March [1832]
Summary
Describes the gathering at Maer and the events culminating in Charlotte Wedgwood’s marriage to Charles Langton.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12–[31] Mar [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-163 |
To J. S. Henslow [2 September 1831]
Summary
Has just arrived in Cambridge; his father has changed his mind. Asks to see JSH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [2 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 3 DAR/1/1/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-114 |
From Catherine Darwin 8 January – 4 February 1832
Summary
News of family and friends, much of it about forthcoming marriages: Fanny Owen and R. M. Biddulph, Fanny Mackintosh and Hensleigh Wedgwood. Charlotte Wedgwood will write to him of her own engagement to Charles Langton.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan – 4 Feb 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-154 |
To the Darwin children 16 September 1881
Summary
A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340 |
From Henry Holland [3–14] January [1862]
Summary
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3–14] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3388 |
To W. D. Fox [9 February 1831]
Summary
Will leave Cambridge shortly after division; plans to return for next term. With so many friends, Henslow among the foremost, it will be pleasant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [9 Feb 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-92 |
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 Emma Wedgwood and Louisa Holland to F. E. E. Wedgwood [21 and 24 November 1836]
Summary
Tells of the pleasure that CD’s visit gave the family.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Louisa Holland; Louisa Croft |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 21 and 24 Nov 1836 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-324 |
To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848]
Summary
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [22 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1177 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (7) |
| Langton, Catherine | (7) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
| Langton, Charlotte | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (7) |
| Langton, Catherine | (7) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
| Langton, Charlotte | (6) |
