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DCP-LETT-466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 9
Summary:

Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.

Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
2 [–3 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 10
Summary:

His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-484

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[6–7 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 11
Summary:

Has been with the Lyells doing geology.

Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].

Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 13
Summary:

He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
25 May [1839]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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