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DCP-LETT-9121F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
[22? Nov 1873]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1)
Summary:

Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9157F

From:
James William Colvile
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 24 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 31
Summary:

Describes a seance attended by George Darwin and Myers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8700

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[c. 29 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 16
Summary:

Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9189F

From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5)
Summary:

Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9397

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
7 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39)
Summary:

Invites AG to stay at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6405F

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

DCP-LETT-9517F

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2
Summary:

Describes voyage to New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9525

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 1 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 138
Summary:

Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9603

From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 70
Summary:

The occurrence and prevention of scale in boilers.

Anxious to hear Murray’s reply [to CD’s letter 9598].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13792

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

DCP-LETT-9674

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
12 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Parish and family news.

Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814G

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
14 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9974F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
9 May [1875]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:

CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10146

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:
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DCP-LETT-10185F

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

DCP-LETT-10732

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

DCP-LETT-10614

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

DCP-LETT-11268

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

DCP-LETT-11304

From:
Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:

On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11516F

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
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