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DCP-LETT-12314F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23)
Summary:

ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1233

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72)
Summary:

The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13400F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[14 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 24
Summary:

Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

The text on EAD’s gravestone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13683

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Jane Fox; Frances Jane Hughes
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-15)
Summary:

Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].

Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.

Recalls happy days at Penally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13769F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/6)
Summary:

Informs JDH of CD’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13791

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
14 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 )
Summary:

Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.

Sends photograph of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13792

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1)
Summary:

CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1404

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 13
Summary:

Is hopeful about Anne after receiving an encouraging message.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1405

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 14
Summary:

Gives her reactions to CD’s reports on Anne’s health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1409

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 22
Summary:

Discusses Anne’s sickness and her hope.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1410

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22–3 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 25
Summary:

Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1411

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 26
Summary:

Tells of the hopes raised by CD’s letter of Monday regarding Anne’s health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1414

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 30
Summary:

Her reactions to Anne’s death; hopes CD may soon return.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-315

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[24 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

They are impatient for CD’s arrival.

EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".

CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-316

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3169

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 35
Summary:

Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3046F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:

Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3366

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A7
Summary:

CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4139F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 55
Summary:

Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4832

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 26
Summary:

CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

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