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From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 286
Summary:

A "Zoological memorandum" for CD with an extract from L. Hindmarsh, "On the wild cattle of Chillingham Park" [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 (1838): 274–84].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 153
Summary:

She agrees that London is the place to settle. She is eager to see him and full of plans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 170
Summary:

Expresses her pleasure in his forthcoming marriage. "I don’t think anybody ever had so delightful a reception into a family as Emma."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 163
Summary:

Sends congratulations on CD’s forthcoming marriage.

Has received some of the reptiles back from G. Bibron, who has named them. TB will get "some subjects in readiness for figuring" by CD’s date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Way
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 148
Summary:

Congratulations on CD’s engagement.

In answer to CD’s request, tells him how to locate an artist who made excellent sketches of Scotland, and probably of Glen Roy. AW himself made a sketch of the Glen which he offers to CD [Collected papers 1: 88].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
13 December 1838
Source of text:
ULC MS add 5354, letter 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 166
Summary:

On his 15th wedding anniversary JSH writes to CD wishing him happiness as great as JSH has had in his marriage, and adds some advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 287
Summary:

Extract of a letter from Sir Robert Heron to WY, copied for CD, about the crossing of solid- and divided-hoofed pigs, and Angora rabbits of different colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
21 [Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652 IB: 175
Summary:

CD informs AS of the position of the Council of the Geological Society on recommending J. B. Jukes for a geological survey of Newfoundland. Feels Jukes’s application would have best chance of success if Sedgwick, his Professor at Cambridge, wrote a letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 154
Summary:

Describes the journey home and the long talks on their return. No maid has been found, so he should engage the one she saw, "for ten guineas & tea & sugar a year". She thought CD looked unwell and overtired.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 155
Summary:

Responds to his "business letter" about the maids, then chides herself for feeling dull and disagreeable when she has had everything all her life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 8
Summary:

The house at 12 Upper Gower Street is theirs.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 156
Summary:

Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 157
Summary:

Seeks to persuade CD to leave town at once, go to Shrewsbury for doctoring and some rest, then come to Maer for more rest, for he has looked "so unwell". She knows it must be hard for him to be unable to do his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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