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DCP-LETT-492

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 162
Summary:

Responds warmly to his very nice letter. CD need have no fear that she will not be as happy as he.

Again expresses uneasiness that their opinions on religion do not agree on all points. Hopes they will sympathise in their feelings on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6405F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 June [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7410

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Virginia Lavinia Isitt
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 101
Summary:

Feels it unlikely that CD could employ a secretary but he is prepared to experiment if Miss I. would care to come to Down for a period.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7516F

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

DCP-LETT-7666F

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

DCP-LETT-7684F

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

DCP-LETT-7916

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

DCP-LETT-9121F

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

DCP-LETT-9397

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

DCP-LETT-9674

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

DCP-LETT-9814G

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

DCP-LETT-9974F

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

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-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-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-328

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

DCP-LETT-434

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

DCP-LETT-4723

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

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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