From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20–1 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 161
Summary:
Preparations for the wedding, various callers, and other bits of news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 162
Summary:
Responds warmly to his very nice letter. CD need have no fear that she will not be as happy as he.
Again expresses uneasiness that their opinions on religion do not agree on all points. Hopes they will sympathise in their feelings on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 26
Summary:
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20–1 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 27
Summary:
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 28
Summary:
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 29
Summary:
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 30
Summary:
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[27–8 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 31
Summary:
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 32
Summary:
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
