From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [13 May 1872]
Summary
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8320 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 19 October 1872
Summary
On his mother’s death.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 124–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8565 |
From J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin 8 March 1872
Summary
Down parish and family matters.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8238 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 9 December [1872]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B124–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8666 |
From A. J. Cupples to Emma Darwin 8 November [1872]
Summary
Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.
Author: | Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8611 |
To H. E. Litchfield 25 July 1872
Summary
Thanks for her pains over corrections [for Expression].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 25 July 1872 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8427 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood , was at Down on 2 August 1872. Emma Darwin recorded in her …
- … Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood and ‘H’, possibly Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood , Frances’s daughter, stayed at Down from 29 to 31 July 1872; …
- … Wedgwood 1872 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 853). There is no evidence that Erasmus Alvey Darwin visited Down at this time. Ravensbourne in Keston, Kent, was the home of the Bonham-Carter family. ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1872). Emma Darwin uses a symbol for yesterday: a circle with a tail pointing to the left. Albert: probably Albert Venn Dicey , who married Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter in 1872. …
From T. H. Farrer 16 June 1872
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8390 |
From Francis Galton 15 November 1872
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8626 |
To M. D. Conway 11 January [1873]
Summary
Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].
Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 11 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8730 |
From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1867–72?] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
From E. A. Darwin 20 November [1872]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8636 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1872 ( Freeman 1977 ). Erasmus presumably refers to the Midland Railway Company; there is no record of CD’s having shares in the Midland in his Investment book (Down House MS), but see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from W. E. Darwin, [January 1869] . Etruria (the Wedgwood factory in Staffordshire), which had been the property of Josiah Wedgwood II , and from which Emma …
- … Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1983, pp. 36, 304; CD’s Investment book (Down House MS)). In his Account books–banking account (Down House MS), CD recorded a payment of £1833 6 s. 8 d. on 20 November 1872, ‘From sale of Etruria’. Jos: Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma’ …
From W. D. Fox 13 July [1872]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8408 |
To W. D. Fox 16 July [1872]
Summary
Is correcting proofs for Expression.
Family news.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 16 July [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8413 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1872 £12 was paid for ‘ Horace Darwin for Malvern Water-cure. ’ Henrietta Emma Darwin had married Richard Buckley Litchfield on 31 August 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix II). Erasmus Alvey Darwin had visited Down between 6 and 9 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD also refers to Caroline Sarah Wedgwood . …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 10 August [1872]
Summary
Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 10 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8462 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood III and Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , from 13 to 21 August 1872 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD finished correcting the proof-sheets of Expression on 22 August 1872 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Wundt 1863 . See letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 8 August [1872] . Kovalevsky visited CD on 22 September 1872 ( Emma …
To E. A. Darwin 7 September [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13789 |
To George Cupples 7 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 7 June [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.428) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8936 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , from 4 to 12 June (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD refers to James Hutchison Stirling . See letter from George Cupples, 4 June 1873 and nn. 2 and 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson . Charles Eliot Norton and Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton had visited in 1868 and 1869 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Other visitors from the US included Asa and Jane Loring Gray (October 1868 and August 1869), Chauncey Wright (September 1872), …
To J. V. Carus 27 October [1872]
Summary
Thanks JVC for his criticisms and corrections of Expression. Asks him to alter his translation accordingly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 27 Oct [1872] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 96–97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8580 |
To William Bowman 1 June [1876]
Summary
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10521 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . Bowman’s letter has not been found. Frans Cornelis Donders was vice-president of the biology section at the South Kensington Museum conferences on the special loan collection of scientific apparatus in May and June 1876 ( Conferences on the special loan collection of scientific apparatus; chemistry etc. , p. 149). Donders spoke on the velocity of thought ( ibid. , pp. 224–8). CD and Donders had corresponded since 1869; in 1872, …
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cupples, A. J. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |