From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:
Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226
Summary:
Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3–4 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
News of the children and books he is reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 31
Summary:
Down parish and family matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 111
Summary:
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 124–5
Summary:
On his mother’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 281
Summary:
Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B124–5
Summary:
Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[c. 29 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 16
Summary:
Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B88
Summary:
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James William Colvile
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 24 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 31
Summary:
Describes a seance attended by George Darwin and Myers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5)
Summary:
Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2
Summary:
Describes voyage to New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 1 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 138
Summary:
Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 70
Summary:
The occurrence and prevention of scale in boilers.
Anxious to hear Murray’s reply [to CD’s letter 9598].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 25
Summary:
CD has been stomachy and sick, but not very uncomfortable.
Working on proofs [of South America] and cannot keep printer supplied with manuscript.
His thoughts of her, and news of the children who are at Down with him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 24
Summary:
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 July 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 76)
Summary:
Returns Geikie’s letter; is glad he has accepted settlement of gravel through melting of snow. Is trudging around with hammer and bag with help of Ramsay’s book. Describes visits to Kenilworth and Stratford. Sara consulted a physician. Called on Reginald D. and enjoyed meeting relations and seeing picture of Erasmus. Reginald very taken with George.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 and 7? Jan 1866]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202)
Summary:
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 2, 9, 252
Summary:
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Acland, Ellen1
- Allen, Jessie1
- Bence Jones, Henry1
- Bonham-Carter, Alice2
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Colvile, J. W.1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Cupples, A. J.1
- Darwin, C. R.45
- Darwin, E. A.8
- Darwin, Emma100
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Darwin, Horace2
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Douglas, A. J.1
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Harrison, Ellen1
- Harrison, L. C.2
- Hawkshaw, C. M.2
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.7
- Hordern, E. F.2
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Innes, J. B.3
- Jenner, William1
- Kempson, L. F.1
- Langton, E. C.1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Lubbock, E. F.2
- Lubbock, John2
- Massingberd, E. C.1
- Scott, John1
- Sismondi, J.-C. L. de1
- Sowerby, G. B., Jr1
- Vaughan Williams, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, C. M.2
- Wedgwood, Elizabeth1
- Wedgwood, Emma100
- Wedgwood, Francis1
- Wedgwood, L. C.2
- Wedgwood, L. F.1
- Wedgwood, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, Robert2
- Williamson, W. C.1
- de Sismondi, Jessie1
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