From Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de and Jessie Sismondi to Emma Darwin 1 July 1840
Summary
Sismondi’s appreciation of CD’s Journal of researches.
| Author: | Jean-Charles Léonard de Sismondi; Jessie Allen; Jessie de Sismondi |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1840 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-574 |
To Emma Darwin [5 April 1840]
Summary
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-564 |
Mackintosh, Ronald (1840–70)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1840–70 Son of of Robert James Mackintosh, Emma Darwin’s cousin, and his American-born wife, Mary Appleton. Died in Paris; buried in Brompton cemetery, London, with his father. Brompton, London, England, cemetery registers, 1840–2012 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 May 2020) Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/684/18/3/2) B. Wedgwood …
To John Gould [after 1 December 1840]
Summary
Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Gould |
| Date: | [after 1 Dec 1840] |
| Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-578F |
To Thomas Carlyle 4 December 1875
Summary
A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | National Trust (Carlyle’s House) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10288G |
Farrer, T. H. (1819–99)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1840. Called to the bar, 1844; ceased to practise in 1848. Secretary of the marine department, Board of Trade, 1850, rising to sole permanent secretary of the Board of Trade, 1867–86. In 1854, married Frances Erskine, whose mother, Maitland, was the half-sister of Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood; …
To G. N. Smith [c. 15 August 1840]
Summary
Questions GNS on remains found in caves on Caldy Island. [CD’s pencilled queries sent via Frances Allen].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gilbert Nicholas Smith |
| Date: | [c. 15 Aug 1840] |
| Classmark: | Tenby Museum |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-576 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , who was asked to send a note with the questions to G. N. Smith. As the letter from Frances Allen to G. N. Smith, 19 August [1840] , explains, she thought it better to send the letter itself to Smith. Elizabeth had built a school on Caldy Island and presumably knew Smith personally ( Emma …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Allen, Jessie | (1) |
| Sismondi, J.-C. L. de | (1) |
| de Sismondi, Jessie | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Carlyle, Thomas | (1) |
| Gould, John | (1) |
| Smith, G. N. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Allen, Jessie | (1) |
| Carlyle, Thomas | (1) |
