From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972)
Summary:
An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
22 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 41 [9894])
Summary:
Arranges for EH’s visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[16 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Summary:
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
19 May [1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 201)
Summary:
CD will be glad to see TWH on Friday next, and invites him to stay the night.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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