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
From:
Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 122
Summary:
Observations on expression in her baby daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 229–30
Summary:
Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 16 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A96–7
Summary:
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Summary:
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project