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DCP-LETT-8205

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

DCP-LETT-8238

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

DCP-LETT-8320

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

DCP-LETT-8565

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

DCP-LETT-8666

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
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DCP-LETT-8874

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
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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-9157F

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.

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DCP-LETT-9189F

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

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-9517F

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

DCP-LETT-9603

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

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-11304

From:
Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:

On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.

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-7605G

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22)
Summary:

Possible quotations about shame for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7786

From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[2–5 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 243
Summary:

Further observations on expression of her dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8053F

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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