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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
, the daughter of Baron Alderson. Fanny Allen to her sister Emma Allen. Wednesday, Oct. 29th [1856]. .Yesterday we were performing wedding guests from ten in the morning till three in the afternoon, when we put off our finery. It was impossible for any marriage to be better got up in an artistic point of view, and certainly the ceremony was very impressive. The church is beautiful and the music and singing excellent. The centre of the church was clear for the performance, a large carpet laid down
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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
, and I did very respectably. I had a good deal of conversation with the Baron after luncheon, he was kind and friendly. Sarah Wedgwood, the last survivor of the children of Josiah Wedgwood of Etruria, died aged 1 Afterwards Lord Salisbury. 2 Georgina Alderson married Lord Robert Cecil in 1857. 80, on the 6th November, 1856, at Down, where she had come to live to be near my mother. Forty or more years ago she had spoken of the then little Emma Wedgwood as having the first place in her affection
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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
. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Sunday, MOOR PARK [probably 1859]. I am very sorry to hear that you are headachy. A scheme just came into my head, viz. that when I am back, that you should come here for a fortnight's hydropathy. Do you not think it might do you real good? I could get on perfectly with the children. You might bring Etty with you. Think of this my own dearest wife. Ah Mammy, I wish you knew how I value you; and what 1 The hexagon was to be used for the discussion on bees' cells
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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
-Jacobin. The naturalists are fighting about the Origin in N. America even more than here, as I see by the printed reports. My dear old fellow, Your affect. Father, C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to Lady Lyell. DOWN, BROMLEY, KENT, Aug. 28 [1860]. My dear Mary, About a week ago Erasmus's housemaid discovered in a cupboard a parcel directed to me, which had come to the house in her absence. It proved to be the knitted veil you made for me, and you must have thought me very ungrateful never to have thanked
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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
childish name of Etty to Henrietta, and now there was a question of changing it again to Harriet. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. Thursday [Sept. 1865]. My dearest Henrietta, I will not stand Harriet, it is the pertest of names. It will be very nice if you come home on Saturday, and no doubt you will, if Wm. comes with you. Papa had a wonderful day yesterday and walked 3 miles, tho' it was very hot too. I took a little drive in the pony carriage by myself, and came home by moonlight round by
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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
Josiah Wedgwood, of Leith Hill Place, and a girl friend for three days' fun in the boat-race week, then held in May. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Thursday, May 1867. We returned from 3 days at Cambridge on Saturday. My companions were Amy Crofton and Lucy, who both met me in London, and Lizzy went with me. Wed. was a most bitterly cold and snowy day, but the girls were all ready for enjoyment. George met us at our inn, and after dinner walked us about. Then we had a carriage, and
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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
telegraph came here at eleven. We have written to W. and the boys. God bless you, my dear old fellow may your life so continue. Your affectionate Father, CH. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday [January, 1868]. My dearest Body, We had a pleasant interlude yesterday in the appearance of Lenny and Horace from school. They flyed to Keston Mark and then came on foot. George's success made a tremendous stir at Clapham1. Wrigley had never been seen in such a state. He gave the
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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 to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday [1868]. My dearest Body, The day was so lovely yesterday that I did Mrs and Mrs Atkins. Mrs was at home in a white gown and enormous eggs hanging about her like Lizzy's bracelet. I am sure the little extravagant must buy new jewelry to be in the fashion. She was very amusing, chiefly about Not Wisely but too Well1, which she liked very much, and should have done just the same only she would have gone straight off from the Crystal Palace, For
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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
ripe on the walls of the kitchen garden, and Vallombrosa more beautiful than ever but the whole place was far more interesting and picturesque than I had remembered. We were enchanted with the town and the churches, and the great solemn well-restored Abbey. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. CAERDEON, BARMOUTH, June 21 [1869]. My dear Aunt Fanny, I have just seen one of your pleasant letters to Eliz., which makes me all the more inclined to write and tell you what sort of a place this is and how
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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
you so God bless you, my dear Henrietta. My warmest of loves for the beloved Emma, whom you have the pleasure of calling mother, and to your daddy respectfully, and love to Bessy, and success to your Italian class. Affectionately yours, FRANS. ALLEN. In the years when we were growing up, I believe my mother was often puzzled as to what rules to make about keeping Sunday. I remember she persuaded me to refuse any invitation from the neighbours that involved using the carriage on that day, and it
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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 to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Thursday [Feb. 1871]. My dear Aunt Fanny, What with dancing lessons and dissipation, and looking after Henrietta, I seem to have had no time lately. Now all the boys (but Leonard) and most of the girls are gone. Hen. makes very slow progress. She reads a great deal and has visits upstairs, but docs not gain strength. She would have enjoyed the wise men we had last week. They were very agreeable, especially Dr Hooker1. She also missed the week of
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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
mother could take care of me. My marriage separated me very little from her. We were constantly up and down to Down, and they shared their London visits between our house and Erasmus Darwin's in Queen Anne Street. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Saturday, April [probably 1872]. My dearest Aunt Fanny, You are alone again to-day and so I will write, though I have little enough to tell you. We have had a few charming days, as one often has in April, but our flowers don't behave like yours
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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 to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Tuesday [27 Sept. 1872]. My dearest Aunt Fanny, Eliz. will have told you our annals up to Sunday. Yesterday 3 sons went in different directions to look for a house for us, as I have persuaded Ch. to leave home for a few weeks. The microscope work he has been doing with sundew has proved fatiguing and unwholesome, and he owns that he must have rest. Horace came home the fortunate one, like the youngest brother in a fairy tale. He has found nice
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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
utmost patience. But my mother used often to say how sad she felt it to come in and find her doing nothing, when ceaseless activity had been her life. To fill up some of her weary useless time my mother gave her our old Broadwood grand-piano and helped her to learn by heart simple airs to play without seeing the notes, for she had not kept up her music, and she came more often to spend the evening and sleep at our house, going home after breakfast. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN
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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
having outlived all her sisters, although she had devoted love from nephews, nieces and grand-nieces. The following is amongst the Maer letters headed Miss Allen's message : My love to all who love me, and I beg them not to be sorry for me. There is nothing in my death that ought to grieve them, for death at my great age is rest. I have earnestly prayed for it. I particularly wish that none of my relations should be summoned to my bedside. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard in New Zealand. Nov. 8
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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
lawn tennis and injured his knee. 2 The wax coating on leaves which makes them come out dry after being dipped in water. Emma Darwin to her son William. CAMBRIDGE, Sunday mg., Nov. 17th, 1877. My dear William, It was a great disappointment your not coming yesterday to witness the honours to F., and so I will tell you all about it. Bessy and I and the two youngest brothers went first to the Senate House and got in by a side door, and a most striking sight it was. The gallery crammed to overflowing
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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
unusual degree owing chiefly to you good boys. If Cambridge newspaper publishes full account of LL.D. do send me a copy. The following describes the first visit to Basset after William's marriage. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. Monday [BASSET, May, 1878]. We had such a lovely day yesterday and loitered about. Sara and I went to church, which is perfectly easy and harmless, and then William, Leo and Bessy met us close to the church. We came home through the park and it was lovely in the
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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
the earth. What a lot of swells you have been meeting and it must have been very interesting. Hurrah for the bowels of the earth and their viscosity and for the moon and for the Heavenly bodies and for my son George (F.R.S. very soon). Yours affectionately, C. DARWIN. Eastern question was then exciting great interest in England owing to the Bulgarian atrocities (1876) and the war between Russia and Turkey (1877 78) which led to the Treaty of Berlin (July, 1878). Emma Darwin to her daughter-in
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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
bequest, as you may believe, has astonished and pleased me greatly; though in a money sense it will make no difference whatever to me or your mother. Mr Rich is 74 years old and his sister a year younger. I never before heard of a bequest to a man for what he has been able to do in Science. My dear old William, Your affectionate father, CH. DARWIN. My best love to Sara. P.S. I have had a copy of Mr Rich's letter made, which is gone to. Erasmus and George but shall be sent you. Emma Darwin to
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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
conversational mood. However, I laid him down when I had exhausted all my stories and then Bessy took a turn, and lastly Sara, who succeeded in finishing him off by the most dismal droning singing. I am afraid F. does a little too much work but it quite keeps off ennui, which might be powerful in this dismal cold weather. Emma Darwin to her son Francis. Whit Tuesday [June 3rd, 1879]. We are expecting the Club and band before long, and Bernard has been very full of it since yesterday, and wanting to
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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
more able to enjoy life. Emma Darwin to Margaret Shaen. DOWN [Feb. 24, 1881]. I enjoyed my talks with you so much, my dear Margaret, and we old folks feel very grateful to the young who care for us, e.g. Mr Darwin's grateful sentiments to his sons for their kind condescension. Bernard was much excited at the receipt of his little bracelets. Charles Darwin to his son George in Madeira. 4, BRYANSTON STREET, Sunday, Feb. 27 [1881]. My dear George, We came here on Thursday and have seen lots of people
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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
pleasant yesterday, and just the sort I like, as Sara was next to Sir J. and very agreeable and brilliant, and I had Leo on my other side, and so I had nothing to do but talk when I chose . Just read Horace's printed [type-written] letter. His ink is detestable, tell him, but it is a nice letter. Erasmus, the eldest child of Horace Darwin, was born on December 7th, 1881. Emma Darwin to Horace and Ida Darwin. Sat. [DOWN, Dec. 10, 1881]. My dearest Ida and Horace, This is only to be the shortest line to
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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
Lenny and I have not heard a word about it. I reproved him for talking and disturbing my letter, and on my asking B. to ring the bell Yes, look sharp about it, Mammy is not to be trifled with when she is in this humour, I can tell you. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. DOWN, Friday. My dear Leo, I have very little to tell you except how beautiful the weather is . I feel a sort of wonder that I can in a measure enjoy the beauty of spring. I am trying to get some fixed things to do at certain
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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 to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. June 8th, 1882. I can quite understand that the change to home gave you a fresh set of painful and melancholy feelings. I am sure you will like to hear, my dear one, that I do quite well without you, though it is a never ceasing comfort to have you. Just when I parted with you I had a vivid and painful regret which sometimes returns and sometimes is softened away, and so it made me feel your going more. Sara being here these two days when I was
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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
his arms to come to me. He was very jolly and racy and everything he does is amusing. Emma Darwin to her son Francis. 31, KENSINGTON SQUARE, Saturday, June 9th, '83. We had such a pretty concert of the young Lushingtons. If they go on as they begin they will be she-Joachims such pretty tone and facility and perfect tune. They played a brilliant Trio of Mendelssohn and a lovely slow movement, besides slow solo Irish and Scotch airs beautifully played .We go down by the 3 o'clock, and I am very
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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
, instead of going the way they were pulling. Frank after his marriage was planning to build a house on part of the Grove fields. This would of course enable my mother to see Bernard almost as often as if he still lived with her, and as she told Frank at the time of my father's death, Bernard was a chief element in her happiness. 1 Meaning some of the sick or poor of the neighbourhood. Emma Darwin to her son Francis. 1883. Dear Frank, I can always write pros and cons easier than speak them; and
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Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. Friday night [Dec. 1883]. Bessy and Mrs Myers are gone to the Electra of the young ladies at Girton. We were talking about the play before Bernard when he said, Is it nice? I answered, Yes, very nice. B.: What is it about? Me: About a woman murdering her mother. This account of a nice play was too much for Jackson's gravity. I have been reading your father's letters to William which he has kept. There is a great deal of anxiety about the health of
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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 to her son Leonard. CAMBRIDGE, Monday [1887 ?]. You must have had some lovely days at Brighton, which I daresay you attributed to the Brighton climate. It is a disadvantage to live on such an ugly road as this. I went out a little way yesterday, but the muddy abominable road and the ugly surroundings made me resolve that it was not worth while Dicky liked it, however, and met some pleasant dogs. I am reading Greville's last volume, it is too political but curiously like the present
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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
changed it for Miss Yonge all about scarlet-fever and drains, she wrote to Leonard. He also gives this characteristic sentence from some letter to him during this year: I quite sympathise with the feeling of not liking to tell fibs with one's belongings as witnesses. My father's Life had been published in the autumn of 1887 and is alluded to below. It was a time of intense feeling for her, but I think there were no reviews that vexed her. Emma Darwin to her son Francis. [Nov. 1887.] I share some
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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
mother had been planning to make a visit to Barlaston, to see her brother Frank, now eighty-eight years old. She had only two surviving brothers, Frank and Hensleigh. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. DOWN, Monday [1888]. I sent off your careful note to the Superintendent at Euston, and it had a very bad or good effect on me, as I was poorly all day and lay awake almost all night, and L. II. 25 [pages] 386 - 38
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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
realized that I was not fit for the journey or visit. I wish I had discovered it before you took all that trouble. So yesterday I wrote to all concerned and George wrote to the Inspector. (I have kept your note to the Staffordshire man, as I have not quite given up all thoughts of it for the spring.) Sara told me of your kind thought of seeing me through London. The visit in the spring of which she speaks would have been too late, for Frank Wedgwood peacefully died on October 1st, 1888. Emma
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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
house of cards. I went to Cambridge, to pay your mother a visit, brimful of course of the exciting scene I had just witnessed. Amongst other items of experience I happened to say to Aunt Emma that Parnell was a good-looking man. On which she turned quite sharply on me, Godfrey, I do believe you're half a Parnellite already. The breakdown of the case against him had been more than she could stand, and I, the reporter of it, was the nearest object representing the failure of the Times and the
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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
romantic place is a great additional charm. DOWN, July 6th, 1890. We had fires all over the house as the day was bitter a sort of day when one hates the very sight of the flower garden. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard, DOWN, Tuesday, September 30th, 1890. The foreign party are enjoying Venice in a way I should like, viz. loafing and gondoliering, but with rather too many churches and dark pictures you can't see. THE GROVE, Sunday, October 5th, 1890. I have found a good reader here till
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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
, October 26th, 1890. William and George went a pilgrimage to a General Bulwer, a beautiful place in Norfolk, to see the picture of an Erasmus Earle, an ancestor. I sneered at them with great contempt for such a fool's errand; in spite of that, however, they enjoyed their trip. CAMBRIDGE, 1890. It is very odd to me people having no interest in contemporary history; when they would be much interested in the same thing happening 100 years ago. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. THE GROVE, Oct
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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
. James' stories and our light one Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety. Bessy and I both agree that we could not really care for other people's pretty things propos to your enjoying the house. I was staying at Idlerocks and my admiration was of Godfrey Wedgwood's pretty things. Emma Darwin to Margaret Shaen in New Zealand. DOWN, July 15, 1892. I wonder whether all families in N. Z. are as happy and sociable and full of life as are all around you
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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
John Lubbock says that no weather is really bad, so we must not mind. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. THE GROVE, Dec. 11th, 1893. I am so prosperous that I have little to say. I had a soir e of both my ladies last night, and Sir C. Danvers being finished, we had an Essay on novels by Gosse, and now I know that I can't abide him. He is quite above considering whether an author is moral or even decent. It is very nice to think I shall have you and R. at Xmas. (Bring me the 7th vol
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. She cared much for him as well as for his novels. March 16th, 1894. I am a little disgusted at Walter Scott's letter to his son rather advising his tackling the little heiress Miss Jobson before he himself knew her. It shewed such grasping for money. Emma Darwin to Laura Forster. THE GROVE, March, 1894. Bessy had the good luck to have Mrs Jebb's ticket for the night and heard that debate. They came away before the division, which would have been great fun. Are not you surprised at Morley's
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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
that Lord Rosebery himself will have some manliness and not eat his words . Emma Darwin to Laura Forster. THE GROVE, May 5th, 1894. I am deep in [Dean] Stanley's Life and I like it so much. I saw him once, but he was in the blaze of Mrs F.'s flattery which I dare say shut him up but he certainly was cold and dry. I am sure I shall be much attached to him. I must own I don't remember Mrs F.'s flattery to him, but it must have been there. I felt as if I must have written the old Invalids letter
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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
Winkworths went through the same morbid feelings about sin and religion. The Burneys did not trouble their heads, and Miss Edgeworth was very strict with herself but not in the way of religion. I should like to know when they came to the age of 40 or so how much their feelings and opinions had approached each other. Emma Darwin to Margaret Shaen. THE GROVE, Ap. 24, 1895. I am deep in the Letters1 and much interested in making out the different characters with such a strong family resemblance in all
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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
, Cambridge, ii. 386 letter to Mrs Litchfield, ii. 302 Darwin, George Howard, birth of, ii. 80; a remarkable child, ii. 156; at Cambridge, ii. 213, 214; Second Wrangler, ii. 216, 217; going with government party to observe a solar eclipse, ii. 235, 236 n.; congratulated by his father on his work, ii. 290; engagement to Maud Dupuy, ii. 349 Darwin, Gwendolen Mary, birth of, ii. 362; as a baby, ii. 369 Darwin, Henrietta Emma, see Litchfield, Mrs Darwin, Horace, birth of, ii. 150; illness, ii. 200, 202
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Emma Allen to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. DULWICH, July 2nd [1813]. The next day, Saturday, which you know was fixed for my going down here, Kitty was just enough to provoke a saint, and made me feel as if I was enchanted in her house. At breakfast I talked of my going, and told her I wished to go by the 4 o'clock coach; to this she agreed and made me understand she would bid John take places at that time, and our dinner was ordered before three. Kitty however placed herself at her writing
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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
suicide is just coming out, and is dedicated to Bernadotte, who she says is exceedingly beloved by the Swedes, whom he renders happy as it is possible. She complains heavily of the London hours and large parties. I hope it will not drive her from London before next June . Emma Allen to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. GREAT GEORGE STREET, July 28 [1813]. The next day Tuesday was the Vauxhall day1, and so tedious a one it was, and the circumstances of it were altogether so vexatious, that I do
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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
in a grand breakfast, much against my own inclination, we shall lay up in Dulwich quietly for the remainder of the summer. Emma [Allen] tells me she wrote to ask your father to bring you up with him and to be in time for it. Few things in this world would give me more pleasure than receiving you here; I am convinced I could make it very agreeable to you, and when I tell you that my happiness in Staffordshire this winter did not terminate in my visit there, but that I carried you off in the most
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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
provident kindness in an immense piece of the finest brawn I have ever seen. How eternal and continual are your kindnesses, dearest Bessy. Since I have written to you we have had five packages, containing things most useful and most pleasant. Emma and Fanny were writing to you and therefore at the time told you, I hope, how excellent your gifts were, and how obliged we were, but I must repeat it for my own satisfaction. You shock me, tho', by paying the carriage. You make your presents extravagant to
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tho' her income did not diminish. M. found her in tears on Tuesday on account of her pecuniary losses. Have you heard that old Edge worth is enraged with the reception that Mme de Sta l receives, and says it renders valueless what the pure Maria Edgeworth received? If Mine de Sta l hears this she will not, as she Intended, go to Edgeworthstown in her tour through Ireland ; and that she will hear it, there is no doubt, as she has very ready ears . Emma Allen to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood
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shall find you all stout Whigs on our return, to recompense me for the pain I have suffered to hear such atrocious sentiments expressed about France as I have done since I have been in the sweet county of Devonshire. I wish Joe would chaperon us this autumn to Italy, by the way of Germany. I would rather not see Paris in its present state . Your letter to Emma [Allen] is just come in and it is refreshing to me to hear a humane sentiment respecting Buonaparte. John Wedgwood has a strong inclination
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current . Emma Allen to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. QUATTRO NAZIONI, FLORENCE, March 19th [1816]. You will be almost as much surprised by the date of my letter as I am to find myself here. It appears to be very much like a dream, but I must tell you how it came to pass. After the flatness of Sismondi's departure and with feelings of despair about ever accomplishing our journey into Italy, at least during the year he was there, we put our names down with a voiturier for company into Italy this
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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
Clifford exceedingly, he is the merriest man I ever saw, but so gentle with it, and so feeling, and seems to like us all so much, that I do not know what we should do without him. We have been doing our utmost to make him buy a new hat, and I expect him to come in presently to shew his transformation by a French hat. The girls [Fanny and Emma] are very busy with their master. They have found a friend in Harriet Collos, who is a little older than them and cannot speak English. Mamma has been thinking a
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than he did the last, when he hurried us all up in the middle of the night. For my own part I feel vexed to have lost so entirely all taste for travelling. A journey weighs upon my mind as a penance more than a pleasure, and though I remain alone, I am glad not to have to go to Paris with Sismondi this April; thus pleasures drop from us like leaves, one by one, till we arrive to feeling that repose is the greatest of all pleasures. Poor Emma [Allen] is confined with broken chilblains. It is
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by myself, that I may write to you quite at my ease in this little drawing-room, with a good fire, and just at Emma [Allen]'s own end of the table where she used to study. I pretend to study French, but in a very dawdling manner. Indeed we dawdle a good deal over everything, and can with some difficulty breakfast before 10 o'clock, do no work, and scarcely read at all. I hope we shall mend our manners when we get to Ch ne. I felt a little low-spirited when they all went, but I trust my Jessie
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