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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
23 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B1–2
Summary:

CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
24 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B3–4
Summary:

JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.

CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219. 1: 78
Summary:

CD’s health.

Family and local news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
4 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65)
Summary:

CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project