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DCP-LETT-6576

From:
Alice Bonham-Carter
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 240
Summary:

Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6685

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[12–24 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 21
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".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:

Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.

CD has been "wonderfully strong".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7426

From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 49
Summary:

Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-761

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
5 July 1844
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A4)
Summary:

Asks that in the event of his death, Emma should have the sketch of his species theory edited and published. Suggests possible editors, among them Lyell, Edward Forbes, and J. D. Hooker. [CD annotation on cover: "Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume Aug 1854".]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-783

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20 or 27] Oct 1844
Source of text:
Emma Darwin 2: 92
Summary:

Has been discussing wills and other legal matters with his father.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7945

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 83–84
Summary:

His mother very ill.

Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.

Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.

Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-810

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[7–8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 22
Summary:

Mainly news of the three children.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8198

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:

Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8205

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226
Summary:

Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-821

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3–4 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

News of the children and books he is reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8238

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 31
Summary:

Down parish and family matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8320

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 111
Summary:

Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8565

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 124–5
Summary:

On his mother’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8666

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B124–5
Summary:

Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8874

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B88
Summary:

Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.

Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].

Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9157F

From:
James William Colvile
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 24 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 31
Summary:

Describes a seance attended by George Darwin and Myers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9189F

From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5)
Summary:

Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9517F

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2
Summary:

Describes voyage to New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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