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From:
Darwin, Catherine
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[22 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A1–A2
Summary:
Concerned about Father’s health.
Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.
Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279)
Summary:
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279)
Summary:
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25? Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 35
Summary:
Commiseration on the death of Anne.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 36
Summary:
Thoughts on the death of Anne.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan – 4 Feb 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 83
Summary:
News of family and friends, much of it about forthcoming marriages: Fanny Owen and R. M. Biddulph, Fanny Mackintosh and Hensleigh Wedgwood. Charlotte Wedgwood will write to him of her own engagement to Charles Langton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26[–7] Apr [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 84
Summary:
Writes chiefly of family affairs: Erasmus’ visit, further delay in Fanny Owen’s marriage, Sarah [Owen] Williams’ illness, Arthur Owen’s sad departure for India; cholera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
May–June [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.
The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 21
Summary:
Shrewsbury news.
Glad he likes Edinburgh.
They have been going to plays performed by a travelling company he knows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
5 July [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
Sailing next day to Montevideo. He has taken many hitherto undescribed animals. Describes the glories of the Brazilian forest.
Mentions his concern over the Reform Bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 85
Summary:
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 86
Summary:
Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree
and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].
Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
22 May – 14 July 1833
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
Longs to be on the other side of the Horn; tired of these countries. Natural history makes him continue. He now knows it will remain his favourite pursuit for the rest of his life.
Comments on slavery.
Will have additional space on board and a servant [Syms Covington] who will help him with the collection of birds and quadrupeds.
Asks for books, a lens, and four pairs of shoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 87
Summary:
She and Susan are in London, and she writes of people they have seen or had news of: Captain Harding, E. A. Darwin, Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood, Emma Wedgwood, the Langtons, Josiah Wedgwood and Aunt Bessie, Fanny Biddulph and child, and the Evanses of Portrane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 23
Summary:
Family news. Visits to the Owens at Woodhouse and the Parkers at Overton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 88
Summary:
Mainly Shropshire news of family and friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 89
Summary:
Finds his journal interesting; they will read it aloud to Papa on winter evenings. They all regret the long time the journey is taking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 90
Summary:
Mentions letters sent in parcel and those from CD received by Fox and Henslow. Adds news of family and friends.
Appreciation of his journal. She hears that CD’s "theory of the Earth" is the same as Lyell’s in 3d volume [of Principles of geology (1833)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27–30 Jan 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 91
Summary:
News of family and friends: W. D. Fox will marry in the spring; private theatricals at Eaton house-party.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project