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Emma Darwin to her sister Charlotte Langton. GOWER STREET, Friday [15 March, 1839]. I am anxious to hear when you are coming up. I hope it may be soon, I should so enjoy seeing you and Charles here my dear Lotty. My Charles has been very unwell since Sunday. We went to church at King's College and found the church not warmed, and not more than half-a-dozen people in it, and he was so very cold that I believe it was that which has made him so unwell. We had Ellen Tollet to dine with us

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

was not well enough for my mother to have the happiness of receiving the Sismondis in Gower St., but the house was lent to them. Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Darwin. TENBY, June 26 [1840]. Dearest Emma, I did intend writing to you before I left your shelter or on leaving it, or after, but here have many days passed with my intention always on my shoulders, and you in my heart, without one word to your sweet self. I find a far greater dissipation here than in 1 The coachman, who lived with

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

indeed a jewel of a son-in-law. His constant attention to my own Bessy was the prettiest thing I ever saw. Their only child, Edmund, was born on Nov. 22, 1841. Charlotte wrote to her sister Emma, her sister-in-law Jessie Wedgwood, who was staying with Emma, and Fanny Hensleigh Wedgwood, who lived at No. 16, Gower Street. [pages] 26 - 2

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Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Darwin. CH NE, Sept. 10 [1842]. Nothing you could say would give me pain, dearest Emma. You have no allayed feeling to awaken up; my sorrow never slumbers but when I sleep myself. I am astonished I can, but I do, and eat and am well, and he gone whom I thought I never could survive. He so filled every instant of my life, that now my feeling of desolation passes all description, but that must necessarily be. If I can but keep off the monster despair, which at

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

Emma Darwin. January 26th [1848], [TENBY]. You are the dearest love that lives, even if you fail of executing your plan, nothing can be more lovely than conceiving it, except the accomplishment of it. Dear child, what pleasure I should have to look again on your sweet face. We can lodge you and Elizabeth magnificently, and I am sure she would come with you, busy as she will be about her house. You are too young, my little darling, to run about the world by yourself discreet and old as you think

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

a very lively scene with the number of steam-boats constantly going and coming; then across to look at new St Thomas's Hospital, which looks like six palaces fronting the river going towards Lambeth I never saw anything so enormous. Then back by new Blackfriars' Bridge and the Holborn Viaduct, which is an immense job, but nothing to see. The open space by Westr. Abbey and the Parliament Houses is very grand. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. BASSET, SOUTHAMPTON [Aug. 1870]. My dear Aunt

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Sir James Mackintosh, who married Catharine, the second daughter, thus describes the life at Cresselly in a letter to JosiahWedgwood: 9th Nov. 1800. We left the 2 maidens all forlorn at the House that Jack built in tolerable good spirits considering the gloomy solitude to which they are condemned. We have heard from good little Emma [Allen] (she really is the best girl in the world), and are happy to hear that the Squire has been pleased to be infinitely more cordial and gracious to his two

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

on earth do I love more or prize higher than your affection for us? She gives a graphic picture of her nervous dread at returning to Cresselly and her happiness that her younger sister Emma had not to return with her. She writes, Now she is safe, and I am where I ought to have been long ago. I cannot tell you how much I dreaded my first arrival here, and my nervousness got to such a height as almost amounted to misery. The following is an undated draft of a letter from Bessy to her youngest

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

letter tells of what I think must have been almost the only visit Harriet Surtees was allowed to pay her sister. At least in 1827, after the death of Mr Surtees, it appears as if Emma Wedgwood, 1 Charles Warren (1767 1823), line engraver and active member of the Society of Arts. He had a great reputation as an illustrator of books, Gil Blas, Don Quixote, etc. 2 Richard Sharp (1759 1834), commonly called Conversation Sharp, was a well-known figure in the literary society of the time, He had known

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

his brother-in-law, but Mrs Darwin is seldom mentioned, and I do not imagine there was any great intimacy between the sisters-in-law. Emma Allen writes, Mrs Darwin remains here a few days longer. I like her exceedingly but not her children [aged 5 and 3], who are more rude and disagreeable than any I ever knew, and yet they are better here than they were at Shrewsbury. A third family also appears continually on the scene, the Caldwells of Linley Wood. Anne Caldwell, the eldest daughter, became

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

high Wrangler and Fellow of Christ's. He was well known as a philologist and was author of the Dictionary of English Etymology and other works. The letters shew what a charming companion he was, as my mother used often to tell me. At the end of this large family of brothers and sisters came two little girls, Frances born 1806, and Emma born May 2nd, 1808, when her mother was 44 years old. The two children formed an inseparable pair, and were the pets of the family. 1 He took double honours in

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

sister Emma Allen. ETRURIA, Aug. 25, 1817. .I am very sorry you have lost some of your friends, and very glad you have lost others. We shall now be looking out for your dispatches by the inconceivable Mrs Waddington. I hope you have not been indiscreet in what yon have sent by her. What is become of our Jess that she is so idle at her pen? Great are the lamentations upon that subject. Sarah [Wedgwood] says she has not heard from her since Janry; I have not for the last six months, and 1 Meaning

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

hopes of the scraps of the dinner. It was amusing to see the difference between our two French servants and any English ones. They were playing all manner of pranks with the asses and screaming and laughing like boys, quite as much at ease as if we were not looking on. They enjoyed the day full as much as we. Emma and Fanny were very happy on their asses, and quacked accordingly. We came home and ate ices at Mr Stamford's hotel, after a very different day indeed from our St Germain's party of

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

A little anecdote is told illustrating his kindly nature. He employed for many years a locksmith who was a wretchedly bad workman and did everything wrong. A friend asked, But why do you keep him on? The answer was, I really can't give the poor man up; I am his last customer1. Sismondi had affectations and small vanities which were very distasteful to English ideas. I remember my mother's describing how he would say petite Emma, as she was coming into the room, in an affectedly caressing way

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

himself. It is astonishing the ill-will he excites, and I do believe it is nothing but his ill manners, for as to political animosity, he cannot excite that, one would think, being the most moderate of the whole set . I think you used Fanny [Allen] very ill, not to let her see her lover. I see you keep up your old ways of managing her and Emma. Was there ever such a saucy way of rejecting a poor lovier? . I beg, my Jessie, you will not say anything to take off from the pleasure I have in being Scott

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

now there was the additional joy for all of seeing their beloved Jessie Sismondi in her Swiss home. The journey was however put off so that Maer might be open to receive the John Wedgwoods. Bessy writes to her sister Emma before Caroline Wedgwood's death: If the worst happens very soon, I hope our poor Jenny will come here with Eliza to try in the quiet of this place to recover a little from the effects of this most sad winter, and we have put off our going till the beginning of February with

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

The love affair mentioned in the foregoing letters caused a great family commotion, and it was apropos of this and of all the letters to and fro, that Harry Wedgwood composed the quatrain often quoted in the family: Write, write, write a letter! Good advice will make us better. Sisters, Brothers, Father, Mother, Let us all advise each other! Charlotte Wedgwood (staying with her cousin Georgian Alderson) to her sister Emma. GREAT RUSSELL STREET, May 6th [1827]. I came here on Tuesday night by

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

CHAPTER XVIII. 1832 1834. Josiah Wedgwood elected for Stoke-upon-Trent Bessy's fall at Roehampton and serious illness The Langtons at Onibury Miss Martineau and Mrs Marsh Hensleigh Wedgwood's scruples as lo administering oaths William Clifford abroad Madame de Sismondi's cure at Schinznach, her tour in Switzerland and visit to Queen Hortense at Constance. AT the end of 1832 Josiah Wedgwood was elected in the first reformed Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent. Emma and Elizabeth Wedgwood to Madame

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

forth from the extraordinary store-houses of both 1 Wife of Charles Wicksted, only son of Mr Tollet, see p. 79. their memories, and enquiries about people so long gone by that the wonder was how they even recollected their names. Emma Wedgwood to her sister-in-law Fanny Hensleigh Wedgwood. MAER, Saturday, 17th Dec. 1836. We are in such a dissipated humour that we have actually invited the Mainwarings and Mrs Moreton for next Wednesday, and then we shall be clear of the world for a year to come

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she was mentioning circumstances which required an indulgent feeling for his weaknesses and prejudices, Jessie was quoting them almost as oracles of undisputed truth. Emma Allen shortly after describes how much Jessie suffers from the humiliation of her deafness, but adds, I would advise all who love her not to be afraid of coming near her, she has such a power of loving and of exciting love that some way or other I always find it good to be near her. 1 An article on Sismondi by Sir Francis

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

borne to disturb that image in my memory by any sight since. Charles was mentioning yesterday a circumstance that I had never heard before, for I think I could not have forgotten it, a dream she had of being able to walk, and what extreme pleasure it gave her. My father was very much affected at hearing it. Good-bye my dear Emma, you may be sure I shall be very glad to go and see you and dear Charles a little further on. Your affect. S. E. W. Elizabeth Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi

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Jos not to come there on his account, and giving a character of himself and Jos so true and beautiful both, that it is a pity it should not be more known. It was a cruel blight that passed over the life of a person of such rare excellence. There are a great number of Coleridge's letters, very clever and amusing in one a very kind message to Miss Allens, Fanny and Emma, and how pleasant the recollection he had of his stay at Cresselly. Tom Poole's letters are interesting. I never cease

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it, when seasoned with love and gratitude. Is it possible it should not excite these feelings sympathetically? A new interest came into their lives in the course of this year. Fanny Allen had taken to going to the Independent Chapel to hear a Mr Anthony, who appears to have been a man of cultivation and ability. She writes: The service pleases me much more than our form. It is, like the Scotch, short. Mr Anthony's prayers are as simple and good as his discourses. And Emma Allen describes the

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

think of her frank, cordial manners. I am so thankful for the daguerreotype. I cannot remember ever seeing the dear child naughty. God bless her. We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife. Do what you can to bear up, and think how invariably kind and tender you have been to her. I am in bed, not very well. When I shall return I cannot yet say. My own poor dear dear wife. C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to Charles Darwin. DOWN, Thursday [24 April, 1851]. My dearest, I knew too well what

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white robe the gleam of bliss was given. It is the loss of her that gives the sadness, there is no other painful recollection connected with her, so that I don't feel afraid that either Emma or I should be here alone. HEYWOOD LANE, June 13th [1853]. It was a painful thing the destruction of her and Sismondi's journals, particularly, I think, the latter (to me), because I believe he wrote his with a vague intention of being made use of for the public eye, and Jessie wrote hers for herself alone. I