From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[25 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 390)
Summary:
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 389)
Summary:
Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).
CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).
CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[22 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71)
Summary:
CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
[22? Nov 1873]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1)
Summary:
Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
7 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39)
Summary:
Invites AG to stay at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
12 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
14 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:
Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
9 May [1875]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:
CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.
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:
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:
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
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
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[17 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:
The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[13 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 174
Summary:
Hopes the Darwins in Shrewsbury will help her convince CD that he must not hurry their marriage too greatly. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] adds a postscript to the same effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, Emma84
- Wedgwood, Emma
- Darwin, C. R.28
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Fox, W. D.6
- Darwin, W. E.5
- Cobbe, F. P.4
- Mackintosh, F. E. E.4
- Scott, John4
- Wedgwood, F. E. E.4
- Innes, J. B.3
- Candolle, Alphonse de2
- Appleton, T. G.1
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Croft, Louisa1
- Darwin, Catherine1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Fox, F. J.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haast, Julius von1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Higginson, T. W.1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Holland, Louisa1
- Hughes, F. J.1
- Isitt, V. L.1
- Kindt, Hermann1
- Langton, Catherine1
- Matthew, Patrick1
- Maw, George1
- Mengden, Nicolai1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Pollock, Frederick1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified1
- Wedgwood, F. J.1
- Whitney, W. D.1