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DCP-LETT-375

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-703

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[12–24] Oct 1843
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 833)
Summary:

Note of hand, signed by CD, for £260 13s 6d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

Family financial matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-766

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III; Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
25 July 1844
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1012)
Summary:

Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Oct 1844
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977)
Summary:

CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1034

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
Date:
27 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35)
Summary:

Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[July 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Summary:

Writes about Emma’s trust account investments and calls due upon them. Sends his record and asks JW to bring it up to date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1407

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

DCP-LETT-1413

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

DCP-LETT-1417

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

DCP-LETT-1426

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

DCP-LETT-1490

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
20 Nov 1852
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Summary:

A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
1 May [1854]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

About share transfers, involving JW as a trustee of CD/Emma marriage trust.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 11 Mar 1871?]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570)
Summary:

A draft letter [but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views.

CD has slightly revised parts in view of both approving and disapproving critics, but still remains convinced about his fundamental notions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143)
Summary:

Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.

Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 July [1877]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546)
Summary:

THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1206

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279)
Summary:

Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1207

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279)
Summary:

Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-108

From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
30–1 Aug 1831
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:

CD has had an offer to go on a voyage of discovery for two years. RWD objects strongly, but will let CD make his case and if JW agrees with CD, RWD will change his position. In a postscript RWD adds, "Charles has quite given up … the voyage."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-111

From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
1 Sept 1831
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:

RWD had made up his mind to give up his objection to the Beagle voyage if JW did not take the same view. If Charles continues to want to go after further inquiry, will give him every assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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