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DCP-LETT-13769F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/6)
Summary:

Informs JDH of CD’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13791

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
14 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 )
Summary:

Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.

Sends photograph of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13792

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1)
Summary:

CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1399

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 8
Summary:

Reports the state of Anne Darwin’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 9
Summary:

Reports on Anne’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 10
Summary:

Reports on Anne’s condition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 11
Summary:

Detailed account of progress of Anne’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1404

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 13
Summary:

Is hopeful about Anne after receiving an encouraging message.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1405

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 14
Summary:

Gives her reactions to CD’s reports on Anne’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1406

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 18
Summary:

Reports on Anne’s health throughout the night and from 8 a.m. through to 4.30 p.m.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1408

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 19–20
Summary:

Further reports on Anne’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1408A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 21
Summary:

An evening report on Annie Darwin’s somewhat improved condition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1409

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 22
Summary:

Discusses Anne’s sickness and her hope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1410

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22–3 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 25
Summary:

Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1411

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
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DCP-LETT-1412

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 28
Summary:

Tells of Anne’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1414

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
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DCP-LETT-2261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 34
Summary:

CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 33
Summary:

Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.

Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.

Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3169

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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