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:
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:
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
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 43
Summary:
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 171–2
Summary:
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 3
Summary:
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 4
Summary:
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 49
Summary:
Proposes to examine CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 [Mar 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B118
Summary:
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
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:
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:
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