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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 214
Summary:

CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.

Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
28 Dec 1863
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11)
Summary:

CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
9 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 93: B29–30
Summary:

CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 220
Summary:

John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21–2 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 150
Summary:

Writes lovingly of small events since he left Maer. Fears their opinions may differ on "the most important subject", religion, but is grateful for his openness about his "honest & conscientious doubts".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 223
Summary:

Request for plants.

CD’s continuing ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 224
Summary:

Request for plant.

Receipt of Oliver’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 or 26] Nov 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 151
Summary:

Responds to items in CD’s letter, just received. Suggests parts of London where he might look for a house. Gives news of friends and relatives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 152
Summary:

Has accepted the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’ invitation to go to London with them; can look at houses with CD. She wishes to avoid extravagance; asks him to choose three or four for her to see.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 232
Summary:

Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6 May 1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143)
Summary:

CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 153
Summary:

She agrees that London is the place to settle. She is eager to see him and full of plans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144)
Summary:

Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:

CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 154
Summary:

Describes the journey home and the long talks on their return. No maid has been found, so he should engage the one she saw, "for ten guineas & tea & sugar a year". She thought CD looked unwell and overtired.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 155
Summary:

Responds to his "business letter" about the maids, then chides herself for feeling dull and disagreeable when she has had everything all her life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 156
Summary:

Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 157
Summary:

Seeks to persuade CD to leave town at once, go to Shrewsbury for doctoring and some rest, then come to Maer for more rest, for he has looked "so unwell". She knows it must be hard for him to be unable to do his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 14
Summary:

Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
23 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 442
Summary:

CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project