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:
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
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
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:
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:
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:
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 55
Summary:
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 101
Summary:
Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
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:
John Scott
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 97
Summary:
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Bonham-Carter, Alice2
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.2
- Candolle, Alphonse de2
- Cobbe, F. P.4
- Colvile, J. W.1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Croft, Louisa1
- Cupples, A. J.1
- Darwin, C. R.73
- Darwin, Catherine1
- Darwin, E. A.8
- Darwin, Emma184
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Darwin, Horace2
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Darwin, W. E.7
- Dicey, E. M.2
- Douglas, A. J.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Ffinden, G. S.2
- Fox, F. J.1
- Fox, W. D.6
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haast, Julius von1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Harrison, Ellen1
- Harrison, L. C.2
- Hawkshaw, C. M.2
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Higginson, T. W.1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Holland, Louisa1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.15
- Hordern, E. F.2
- Hughes, F. J.1
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Innes, J. B.6
- Isitt, V. L.1
- Jenner, William1
- Kempson, L. F.1
- Kindt, Hermann1
- Langton, Catherine1
- Langton, E. C.1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Lubbock, E. F.2
- Lubbock, John2
- Mackintosh, F. E. E.4
- Massingberd, E. C.1
- Matthew, Patrick1
- Maw, George1
- Mengden, Nicolai1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Pollock, Frederick1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Scott, John5
- Sismondi, J.-C. L. de1
- Sowerby, G. B., Jr1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyndall, John1
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- Vaughan Williams, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, C. M.2
- Wedgwood, Elizabeth1
- Wedgwood, Emma
- Wedgwood, F. E. E.4
- Wedgwood, F. J.1
- Wedgwood, Francis1
- Wedgwood, L. C.2
- Wedgwood, L. F.1
- Wedgwood, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, Robert2
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