From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
19 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B31
Summary:
CD agrees about reversion.
The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[7 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 215
Summary:
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[before 17 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129)
Summary:
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].
Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
12 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
17 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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:
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