From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 26
Summary:
Tells of the hopes raised by CD’s letter of Monday regarding Anne’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 30
Summary:
Her reactions to Anne’s death; hopes CD may soon return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[24 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:
They are impatient for CD’s arrival.
EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".
CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:
CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 35
Summary:
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[17 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:
The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
28 June [1862]
Source of text:
James G. Zimmer (private collection)
Summary:
CD too ill to write.
He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6–27 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a)
Summary:
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[29 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141)
Summary:
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Oct [1863?]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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.]
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[13 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 174
Summary:
Hopes the Darwins in Shrewsbury will help her convince CD that he must not hurry their marriage too greatly. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] adds a postscript to the same effect.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Contributor:
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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:
John Murray
Date:
[before 17 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129)
Summary:
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
Contributor:
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