From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 28
Summary:
Tells of Anne’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 34
Summary:
CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 33
Summary:
Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.
Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.
Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 3
Summary:
His [first] railway journey was disappointing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 101
Summary:
Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 97
Summary:
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 43
Summary:
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 171–2
Summary:
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 49
Summary:
Proposes to examine CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[14 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 4
Summary:
In his first letter after their engagement, CD reports on the happy reception of the news by his family. He hopes she will not find life with him solitary and dull after the lively social life of Maer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 [Mar 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B118
Summary:
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 3
Summary:
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 4
Summary:
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8:5
Summary:
Recounts his misadventures on the train journey back to London. Tells of a visit to the FitzRoys and a friendly letter from Lyell. Whether CD and Emma should live in central London or in the suburbs is a perplexing problem, much discussed by relatives and friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 6
Summary:
CD and Erasmus continue to search for a house in central London. They have tea with the Carlyles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Nov – 1 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 7
Summary:
His search for a London house. He visits the Lyells, who give solemn advice to choose their London acquaintances carefully.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 8
Summary:
The house at 12 Upper Gower Street is theirs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 9
Summary:
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Acland, Ellen1
- Allen, Jessie1
- Bence Jones, Henry1
- Bonham-Carter, Alice2
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Colvile, J. W.1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Cupples, A. J.1
- Darwin, C. R.42
- Darwin, E. A.8
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Darwin, Horace2
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Douglas, A. J.1
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Harrison, Ellen1
- Harrison, L. C.2
- Hawkshaw, C. M.2
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.7
- Hordern, E. F.2
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Innes, J. B.3
- Jenner, William1
- Kempson, L. F.1
- Langton, E. C.1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Lubbock, E. F.2
- Lubbock, John2
- Massingberd, E. C.1
- Scott, John1
- Sismondi, J.-C. L. de1
- Sowerby, G. B., Jr1
- Vaughan Williams, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, C. M.2
- Wedgwood, Elizabeth1
- Wedgwood, Francis1
- Wedgwood, L. C.2
- Wedgwood, L. F.1
- Wedgwood, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, Robert2
- Williamson, W. C.1
- de Sismondi, Jessie1
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