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DCP-LETT-6576

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:
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DCP-LETT-7426

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

DCP-LETT-8198

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:

Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8205

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226
Summary:

Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7605G

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22)
Summary:

Possible quotations about shame for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7786

From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[2–5 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 243
Summary:

Further observations on expression of her dog.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7945

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:
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DCP-LETT-8053F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 2, 9, 252
Summary:

Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8238

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 31
Summary:

Down parish and family matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8320

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 111
Summary:

Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8565

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 124–5
Summary:

On his mother’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8611

From:
Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 281
Summary:

Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8666

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B124–5
Summary:

Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8874

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B88
Summary:

Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.

Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].

Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".

Contributor:
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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:
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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-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:
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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
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