From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[5 November 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 252
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B126
Summary:
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972)
Summary:
An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
22 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 41 [9894])
Summary:
Arranges for EH’s visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[16 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Summary:
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
19 May [1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 201)
Summary:
CD will be glad to see TWH on Friday next, and invites him to stay the night.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 78
Summary:
Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 49
Summary:
Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 June [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alice Bonham-Carter
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 240
Summary:
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Virginia Lavinia Isitt
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 101
Summary:
Feels it unlikely that CD could employ a secretary but he is prepared to experiment if Miss I. would care to come to Down for a period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 49
Summary:
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[25 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 390)
Summary:
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 389)
Summary:
Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).
CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).
CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[22 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71)
Summary:
CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 83–84
Summary:
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, Emma
- Wedgwood, Emma44
- Cobbe, F. P.4
- Innes, J. B.4
- Darwin, E. A.3
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Darwin, C. R.2
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Ffinden, G. S.2
- Wedgwood, Robert2
- Acland, Ellen1
- Bonham-Carter, Alice1
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Colvile, J. W.1
- Cupples, A. J.1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Douglas, A. J.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Harrison, Ellen1
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Higginson, T. W.1
- Hordern, E. F.1
- Isitt, V. L.1
- Lubbock, E. F.1
- Mengden, Nicolai1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified1
- Wedgwood, F. J.1
- Wedgwood, Francis1
- Wedgwood, L. C.1
- Whitney, W. D.1