From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 10
Summary:
Reports on Anne’s condition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1851
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 12
Summary:
Asks EAD to forward a message of Anne’s improved state to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 11
Summary:
Detailed account of progress of Anne’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 18
Summary:
Reports on Anne’s health throughout the night and from 8 a.m. through to 4.30 p.m.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 19–20
Summary:
Further reports on Anne’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 21
Summary:
An evening report on Annie Darwin’s somewhat improved condition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[21 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:
Asks FW to come over to feel his daughter’s pulse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 28
Summary:
Tells of Anne’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[24 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:
Arrangements for leaving Malvern after death of Anne.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:
Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[25 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:
Is glad he returned home to be with Emma, and is grateful to Fanny for following Anne to the grave.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Mary Thorley
Date:
26 Apr [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 73
Summary:
Expresses gratitude to Mrs T’s daughter for devotion to his daughter in final illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
29 Apr [1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 79)
Summary:
His favourite child, Anne, has unexpectedly died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
[1 May – 5 June 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 131
Summary:
Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, 12th duke of Somerset
Date:
May 1851
Source of text:
Julian Browning (dealer) (Catalogue 10, ‘Historical Manuscripts and Documents’)
Summary:
Testimonial on behalf of J. D. Hooker, addressed to Lord Seymour as Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Woods and Forests, signed by CD and many other scientists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:
Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
6 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 385
Summary:
Congratulates JD on discovery of fossil footsteps near Port Philip, Australia. Richard Owen would be glad to examine them. J. B. Jukes most likely to know geology of Port Philip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
15 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 386
Summary:
Comments on concretionary bodies found by JD. Encourages him to continue geological study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
25 May [1851]
Source of text:
Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209)
Summary:
Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Ball
Date:
26 May [1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows’ Papers 54.ii)
Summary:
Obliged for letter about cirripedes attached to turtles’ backs. Genus is Chelonobia, Leach. Cirripedes do not penetrate skin, but surrounding tissue grows up around them.
Asks RB to send S. American Balanus. Already has specimens from Irish coast.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project