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From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
13 Nov 1838
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:

RWD’s happiness that Emma has accepted CD’s proposal of marriage.

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
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Josiah Wedgwood
Date:
12 February 1819
Source of text:
WM MS E31-23955
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Josiah Wedgwood
Date:
23 February 1819
Source of text:
WM MS E31-23956
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Josiah Wedgwood
Date:
14 March 1819
Source of text:
WM MS E31-23958 and 23957
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday 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:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Sept 1842]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 260)
Summary:

Reports on Josiah Wedgwood [II], who is seriously ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[24 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

They are impatient for CD’s arrival.

EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".

CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Louisa Holland; Louisa Croft
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
21 and 24 Nov 1836
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

Tells of the pleasure that CD’s visit gave the family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[17 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1847
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1020)
Summary:

Concerning the purchase of shares.

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:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1838
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 198)
Summary:

JW’s satisfaction in bestowing Emma on CD.

[A note from Emma on cover thanks RWD for the way the family have received her.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project