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DCP-LETT-719

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1843
Source of text:
DAR 154: 87
Summary:

Thanks SD for some furniture. Describes arrangement of furnishing at Down and work carried out on the grounds. Children are "very full of their approaching lessons".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-674

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[8 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A14–15
Summary:

Thanks father for loan. Explains difficulty of acquiring the land through which the approach to Down House now runs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1844?]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A9–10
Summary:

Sends thanks for money.

Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.

Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-913

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
3[–4] Sept 1845
Source of text:
DAR 153: 109
Summary:

"All about household and money matters." The family is now living on about £1000 per annum. Plans a new walk and additions to the house.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1234

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A7–A8
Summary:

Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-19

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Jan 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 18
Summary:

A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins’: Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-153

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20–31 Dec [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 70
Summary:

Family and Shropshire news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-18

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec [1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 22
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-29

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 25
Summary:

Writes of Papa’s disapproval of CD’s practice of picking and choosing only lectures he likes to attend and of his early return home.

News of Erasmus, who is visiting sick poor people in the neighbourhood. Other Shrewsbury news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-160

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [– 3 Mar] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 95
Summary:

Chronicles the events of February, principally of the family and of a few friends: engagements, marriages, deaths, some visits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-170

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May [– 2 June] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 96
Summary:

News from Maer and Shrewsbury of family, friends, and reports of reactions to CD’s first letters.

Sedgwick suggests he look for fossils in gravel banks of rivers.

Fanny Owen is married to R. M. Biddulph. Reform Bill prospects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-180

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15[–18] Aug 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 97
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-191

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 & 18 Nov 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 98
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-200

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 & 6 Mar 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 99
Summary:

Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;

SD brings family news up to date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-211

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 & 31 July 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 100
Summary:

News of family and friends after skipping June letter: Osmaston and the Foxes, five weeks in London, the Langtons in Shropshire, Fanny Biddulph and daughter, R. W. Darwin, and Charles Hughes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-219

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 101
Summary:

Mainly news of the family and friends. Their joy at the abolition of slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-237

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12[–28] Feb 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 102
Summary:

Writes on CD’s 25th birthday.

Points out "errors in orthography" in his journal.

News of family and friends, visits, and other social events.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-246

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23] May 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 103
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-264

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24] Nov 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 104
Summary:

The Langtons will go to Madeira for the winter. E. A. Darwin and the Hensleigh Wedgwoods enjoyed a stay in Cambridge, where they saw Professors Whewell and Sedgwick. Colonel Leighton has died. The King has dismissed the Whig Ministry; Wellington is Premier, and the country is in a strange state.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-268

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1835
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser. 2): 18–20
Summary:

Met Capt. Harding who said FitzRoy was promoted to Post-Captain.

News of family and friends. Forthcoming marriages of Robert Wedgwood and Tom Eyton.

Contributor:
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