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DCP-LETT-4942

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 [Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B119–20
Summary:

Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.

Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5078

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:

Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5334

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 19 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B121
Summary:

Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5335

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B122–3
Summary:

Will be glad to see her on 4th.

Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5639

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 78
Summary:

CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5724

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 185
Summary:

Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.

Woolner is unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5761

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 16 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A96–7
Summary:

Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.

Is sending preparations of beetles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5830

From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 70
Summary:

Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5952

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 86
Summary:

Crying in babies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6685

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Summary:

Pleased to come on 17th.

Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.

Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.

Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].

Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3366

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A7
Summary:

CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3368

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:

Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4139F

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:
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-4832

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 26
Summary:

CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4868

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 July 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 272
Summary:

Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.

E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.

Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.

ED reports on CD’s health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5572

From:
Louisa Frances Wedgwood; Louisa Frances Kempson
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
20 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 4
Summary:

Relates some observations for CD on the crying of her infant daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5855

From:
Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 121
Summary:

Too late to observe baby’s tears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6039

From:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 287
Summary:

Observed expression in her baby for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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