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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 February 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 177
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1845
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
[16] Nov [1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 129)
Summary:
Describes CD’s visit to Maer on his return from Beagle voyage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 140
Summary:
Has returned CD’s Beagle journal MS. Thinks it would be an interesting account even if they did not know CD, and that it will be successful if published; the less it is mixed up with FitzRoy’s journal, the better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1842]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 258)
Summary:
Gives an account of his father’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1844 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.136
Summary:
Gives reason for writing [Principles of Geometric Demonstration (1844)]. Plans later edition in which HW will cite JH's statement in [Quarterly Review]. Role of sense experience in axioms.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1848?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.135
Summary:
Sends small work on foundations of thought, with citation of JH's article in Quarterly [Review]. Note on geometry of planes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 48: A80–1
Summary:
Suggests CD use the common origin of the French "chef" and the English "head" or "évêque" and "bishop" to illustrate the parallels between extinction and transitional forms in language and palaeontology [see Natural selection, p. 384].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1859 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.134
Summary:
Recalls JH's letter from Cape regarding study of etymology. Encloses HW's own effort to develop this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:
HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan? 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 83–5
Summary:
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 53
Summary:
On origin of hand-shaking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 54
Summary:
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 53v
Summary:
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868–70?]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 164–5
Summary:
Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 56
Summary:
On the expression of disagreeable surprise.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 41–53
Summary:
On "moral sense" in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 56–9
Summary:
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Breton, Philip le1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, C. R.19
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, G. H.3
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.3
- Herschel, John3
- Heywood, James1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Mackintosh, F. E. E.1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Russell, John1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Elizabeth1
- Wedgwood, F. E. E.1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh
- Yorke, H. G. R.1
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