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
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
14 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 )
Summary:
Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.
Sends photograph of CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alice Bonham-Carter
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
21 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 241
Summary:
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
23 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 442
Summary:
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 74
Summary:
Sends some figures on long- and short-styled primroses for "Uncle Ch".
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; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 July 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 272
Summary:
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 247
Summary:
Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 [Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B119–20
Summary:
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 and 7? Jan 1866]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202)
Summary:
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B122–3
Summary:
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 287
Summary:
Observed expression in her baby for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louisa Frances Wedgwood; Louisa Frances Kempson
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
20 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 4
Summary:
Relates some observations for CD on the crying of her infant daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 78
Summary:
CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 19 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B121
Summary:
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 185
Summary:
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 121
Summary:
Too late to observe baby’s tears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 86
Summary:
Crying in babies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 70
Summary:
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Appleton, T. G.1
- Bence Jones, Henry1
- Bonham-Carter, Alice1
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Darwin, C. R.7
- Darwin, E. A.5
- Darwin, Emma64
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, W. E.6
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Fox, W. D.5
- Haast, Julius von1
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Hawkshaw, C. M.2
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.11
- Hordern, E. F.1
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Innes, J. B.2
- Jenner, William1
- Kempson, L. F.1
- Kindt, Hermann1
- Langton, E. C.1
- Lubbock, E. F.1
- Lubbock, John2
- Massingberd, E. C.1
- Matthew, Patrick1
- Maw, George1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Pollock, Frederick1
- Scott, John5
- Sowerby, G. B., Jr1
- Vaughan Williams, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, C. M.2
- Wedgwood, Elizabeth1
- Wedgwood, Emma
- Wedgwood, L. C.1
- Wedgwood, L. F.1
- Wedgwood, M. S.1
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