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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

deliberately our visiting acquaintance: every disagreeable or commonplace acquaintance must separate us from our relations and real friends, for the evenings we sacrifice might have been spent with them or at the theater. Emma wrote to Sismondi on December 28: I have been away to London to help Charles to look for a house . Our gaieties were first going to the play, which Charles actually proposed to do himself, but I am afraid it was only a little showing off. If was the Tempest, and we all

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

A biographer must record the birth of children. In September, 1843, the fourth child, Henrietta Emma, was born; she became Mrs. Litchfield and edited Emma Darwin: a Century of Family Letters. George Howard was born in July, 1845; he became a professor of astronomy at Cambridge. 2. Joseph Dalton Hooker While the Darwins were spending their first night in Downe House, Hooker was sleeping under the battened hatches of H. M. S. Erebus, which was hove to in a fierce gale that was driving her east

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

we all knew that there could be no further question in the matter; what his father did or thought was for him absolutely true, right, and wise. Emma never felt quite at ease in the Doctor's presence, but she confessed that he was extremely kind of her and that she was fond of him. Even when she once remarked sharply in a letter that one gets rather fatigued by the Dr. 's talk, especially the two whole hours just before dinner, she admitted in the next sentence that the Dr. has been as pleasant

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

Shallow, Emma, very good. Emma's diary record of this period (two weeks after she had been confirmed) was as follows: 1st Oct., Revels; 2nd, Revels; 4th, Revels; 5th, Acted some of Merry Wives; 6th, Oct., quiet evening. Emma was likely to be very good at whatever she undertook. At school in London, the year before, she had been one of the show performers on the piano. When she [page] 1

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

and tell something about Johnson again (not but what I am very much surprised that Papa should so forget himself as to call me, a Collegian in the University of Edinburgh, a boy). You mentioned in your letter that Emma was staying with you: if she is not gone, ask her to tell Jos that I have not succeeded in getting any titanium, but that I will try again. [Here the editor deletes some words.] I want to know how old I shall be next birthday I believe seventeen, and if so, I shall be forced to go

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

anne and Susan for their affectionate notes, which gave me the greatest pleasure. My narrative of scientific warfare must not pause for love-letters, but I should like to slip in a few sentences from a long epistle that Charles sent to Emma three days after the day of days: There was never anyone so lucky as I have been, or so good as you. Indeed I can assure you many times since leaving Maer I have thought how little I expressed how much I owe to you; and as often as I think this, I vow to

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

relatives and friends. There is a sort of violence in printing such extracts, for which I may well be blamed. My excuse is that the Darwin family were more entertaining that I could be. The references to the children can be understood from the following list of the birth-dates and names of the seven who grew to maturity. All seven survived their father. William Erasmus, 1839 Henrietta Emma, 1843 George Howard, 1845 Elizabeth, 1847 Francis, 1848 Leonard, 1850 Horace, 1851 Feb. 24, 1852. Charles

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

fifty pounds. He was a rapid and copious talker. He kept his household orderly and punctual, and had an uncanny instinct for diagnosing what was going on in people's minds and bodies. He was a very affectionate man who inspired th devotion of his children. When Charles said that his father thought or did so and so. (his cousin Emma Wedgwood testified) [page]

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

thoughts as the coach rattled northward from Shrewsbury. More likely he was thinking of a certain Emma Wedgwood, whose home was thirty miles to the northeast. History contains no record of how young Darwin felt about her in October of 1825, and speculations about a sweetheart should not be allowed to intrude [page] 1

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

arrange to live in Cambridge for a time. Late in October he attended to unloading his specimens from the Beagle at Greenwich and shipping them to Cambridge. Emma Wedgwood confessed to a sister-in-law that she was growing impatient for a visit from Charles. We all ought to get up a little knowledge for him. I [page] 19

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

by a physician to an enforced holiday at Maer or the seashore or some water-cure establishment. The outing in Scotland improved his health and spirits. Shortly after his return to town he was further benefited by a visit from Emma Wedgwood and his sis- [page] 19

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

and white trousers, but I vowed I would only put on clothes in which I could travel away decently. Jan. 20. My own dearest Emma, I earnestly pray you may never regret the great, and I will add very good, deed you are to perform on the Tuesday. My own dear future wife, God bless you. My good old friend Herbert sent me a very nice little note, with a massive silver weapon, which he called a Forficula (the Latin for an earwig) and which I thought was to catch hold of soles and flounders, but

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

neither old nor new . Captial study 18x18. Dining-room 21x18. Drawing-room can easily be added to: is 21x15. Three stories, plenty of bedrooms. We could hold the Hensleighs and you and Susan and Erasmus all together . I believe the price is about 2200 . Emma was at first a good deal disappointed, and at the country round the house; the day was gloomy and cold with N. E. wind. She likes the actual field and house better than I do; the house is just situated as she likes for retirement . She was

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

similar to Darwin's could be found in history? I have never heard of even one. Unless there are many, a sermon about the deadening effect of science is untruthful. 2. Darwin as a Mere Human Being after 1851 This section is a mosaic of odds and ends taken from Volume II of Emma Darwin: a Century of Family Letters, compiled and annotated by Darwin's daughter Henrietta (Mrs. R. B. Litchfield). Many of the letters from which I quote were written by Mrs. Darwin. It should be understood that these were

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A543 Book contribution: Skinner, A. J. 1927. [Letter of reminiscences of Darwin at Down House]. In L. F. Abbot, Twelve great modernists. New York: Doubleday, pp. 247-249. Text Image

Cambridge with Emma Darwin for the winters. Bernard Darwin remembered him as 'soothing and tranquil rather than exciting company, as tranquil as the horses he drove'. [page] 24

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Late in June his sister Caroline became engaged to Emma's brother josiah. It is delightful to see, said Emma, how much attached he is to her. Whenever I have talked to him alone he has burst out in a way as if he could not contain himself about her exquisite charm. Poor Charles slaved in London. As soon as he had finished reading the proof of the Journal, he set himself definitely to the study which was to occupy all the rest of his life: In July I opened my first notebook for facts in

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

ability to combine plays with his warfare against the heretics. If a man is destined to be a field-marshal of the forces of common sense, how can he spare any of his small amount of strength for the play? Emma Wedgewood made the usual wifely sacrifice. She gave, and in return received, a completeness of devoted love. During the rest of 1838 Darwin's thoughts were much distracted from science. He was hunting a house and writing frequently to Maer. I positively can do nothing, and have done

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A1097 Periodical contribution: Anon. 1927. Obituary of Mrs Litchfield. The Times (24 December): 10. Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 1 DEATHS LITCHFIELD. – On Dec. 17, 1927, at Burrows Hill, Gomshall, HENRIETTA EMMA, widow of RICHARD BUCKLEY LITCHFIELD and daughter of the late Charles Darwin, aged 84. [24 December, page 10] MRS. LITCHFIELD. DARWIN'S DAUGHTER AND HELPER. A correspondent writes :_ Mrs. Litchfield, whose death at the age of 84 was recorded in The Times a few days ago, was Henrietta, the fourth and eldest surviving child of Charles Darwin. She had outlived

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A1098 Periodical contribution: Anon. 1928. Obituary of Horace Darwin. The Times (24 September): 21. Text

Charles and Emma Darwin. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree as a senior optime in the Mathematical Tripos in 1874. The following letter written by his father after hearing that Horace had passed the Cambridge University Previous Examination, commonly known as the Little Go, is of interest when the work of the writer and of the recipient of the letter is considered:- 6, Queen Anne-street, Friday morning. 8.30 a.m., December 15, 1871. My dear Horace,- We are so rejoiced

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A1335 Periodical contribution: [Keith, Arthur]. 1929. Down House. British Association for the Advancement of Science Report of the ninety-sixth meeting...1928. London. Text PDF

father, Dr. Darwin, and he took up his residence there on September 14, 1842. Darwin was then in his thirty fourth year; three years previously he had married his cousin, Emma Wedgewood. His two eldest children, William and Anne, were born in London; the third, Mary, was born and died just after arrival at Down. Then followed in 1843 Henrietta, who became Mrs. Litchfield; in 1845 George, who became Sir George Darwin, F.R.S., and whose son, Prof. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., succeeded to the

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A1335 Periodical contribution: [Keith, Arthur]. 1929. Down House. British Association for the Advancement of Science Report of the ninety-sixth meeting...1928. London. Text PDF

garden, in which the experimental plot of ground was situated, and where the greenhouses were ultimately put up.' To fill in some further details of this picture of Down we may also draw upon the description given by Mrs. Litchfield, in the life of her mother, Mrs. Darwin (Emma Darwin, privately printed 1904). 'For some time there had been a growing wish on the part of my parents to live in the country. Their health made London undesirable in many ways, and they both preferred the freedom and quiet

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A871 Periodical contribution: Anon. 1932. Darwin at Down: the house and garden. The Times (19 April): 19. Text

the full acquaint themselves with the many references in the published letters of Darwin and of Emma Darwin, his wife, to the house, and, in particular, to the garden. Then it is possible to make up, from what can now be seen at Down, the mental picture of a family as happy as it was eminent, and loving its home. The signs of more recent neglect are still, alas! upon the garden; though something has been done to obliterate them during the past three years of the British Association's ownership

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CUL-DAR262.4.1 Correspondence: Darwin Leonard to Richter O 1932.12.01 Darwin Leonard to Richter O Text Image

as are available moreover makes it possible that my father saw no visitors whatever between the 12th and 20th of August 1862. According to a book written by my sister (Emma Darwin. Murray. 1915. II. p. 176) this was another year of anxiety and of illness in the family. Leonard, then a boy of twelve, had scarlet fever most dangerously, and hung between life and death for weeks. The other children were sent away from home……. At the end of my mother's long period of nursing, she caught the fever

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A264 Book contribution: Darwin, Bernard. [1933]. Introduction [with reminiscence of his grandmother Emma Darwin]. In Gertrude Jekyll, Children and Gardens. 2d ed. London: Country Life Ltd.; New York: Scribners. Text

Darwin, Bernard. [1933.] Introduction [with reminiscence of his grandmother Emma Darwin]. In Gertrude Jekyll, Children and Gardens. 2nd edition. London: Country Life Ltd.; New York: Scribners. [page] xi I am reminded of my own grandmother [Emma Darwin] by [page] xvi

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A540 Pamphlet: Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co. Text Image PDF

IX Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin, 1888. More Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin and A. C. Seward, 1903. Emma Darwin: a Century of Family Letters, ed. Mrs. Litchfield, 1915. Printed by Russell Company (Southern Counties) Ltd., 25 Portland Street, Southampton [back inside cover

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F1566 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press. Text Image PDF

fit of disgust with it, want to get it out of my sight.... A great deal is absolutely childish. Remember however this that it is written solely to make me remember the voyage, that it is not a record of facts but of my thoughts, in excuse recollect how tired I generally am when writing it . A little later he begged they would not risk sending it by coach to Maer, the home of his uncle Josiah Wedgwood and of his future wife Emma, for it may appear ridiculous to you, but I would as soon lose a

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A540 Pamphlet: Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co. Text Image PDF

nor new—walls two feet thick— windows rather small—lower story rather low . . . Emma was at first a good deal disappointed, and at the country round the house; the day was gloomy and cold with N.E. wind. She likes the actual field house better than I; the house is just situated as she likes for retirement, not too near or too far from other houses, but she thinks the country looks desolate. I think all chalk countries do, but I am used to Cambridgeshire, which is ten times worse. Emma is rapidly

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A540 Pamphlet: Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co. Text Image PDF

post, was away on the voyage until 1836, and in that time visited many islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, South America (principally), Australia, and the Cape of Good Hope. He returned with knowledge and materials, especially in geology, botany, and zoology, which brought him quickly into the first rank of scientific men; and to some of his observations on that voyage he himself traced the origin of his own views upon the origin of species. In 1839 he married his cousin Emma

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A540 Pamphlet: Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co. Text Image PDF

Mrs. Darwin's joy. But the Sandwalk now is hallowed ground. The life at Down House is particularly well documented, mainly in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by his son, Francis Darwin (London, 1887) and the second volume of Emma Darwin, A Century of Family Letters, edited by her daughter Henrietta Litchfield (London, 1915). These books, in Darwin's own autobiography included in the first of them and in many letters (and how admirable the letter-writing of those generations, though

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F1566 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press. Text Image PDF

knowledge of each island or country visited, and it was the geological basis to his thought that * Emma Darwin, I, p. 387. † See Bibliog. p. xxvi. ‡ Camb. Univ. Press, 1909. [page] xiv PREFAC

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A930 Book: Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1937. Extracts of Lewis Henry Morgan's European travel journal. Edited by Leslie A. White. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Historical Society Text Image PDF

politely and cordially. His house is pleasantly situated just beyond the village in an extremely rural position; in other words it is a charming country home. Mr. Darwin is about 65, and rather infirm, but a man of strong frame, and very intelligent features. He is extremely sociable and agreeable. Instead of a stiff time which I rather expected I had a most delightful visit. His wife is very pleasant and so is his daughter Emma, who acts as his amanuensis. He has also five sons, two of whom are about

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A930 Book: Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1937. Extracts of Lewis Henry Morgan's European travel journal. Edited by Leslie A. White. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Historical Society Text Image PDF

Emma are both very agreeable. His home in every sense seems to be a happy one. He wears a long beard which is now quite gray. After an excellent dinner he sent me down to the station in his carriage. He keeps two men servants as house servants and a coachman besides, and from what I saw I am glad to know that he is in prosperous circumstances. He said Mr. Appleton occasionally made him a remittance on account of sales of his books in the United States. I told him my experience had been uniformly

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F3361 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1940. [Letters to John Fiske, 1874-80]. In Ethel F. Fiske ed., The letters of John Fiske. New York: The Macmillan Company. Text

; for now it goes without saying that the discovery of Natural Selection has put the whole future thought of mankind on a new basis. I am going to bring my wife to London with me this time, for after 15 years with the children I think she ought to have a vacation. While we are there I hope to get a chance to look at you again for a moment and shake hands. Ever, my dear Mr. Darwin, Most sincerely yours, [Emma Darwin recorded in her diary, 21 May 1880, Mr Mrs Fiske

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A291 Book: Venn, J. A. ed. 1944. Alumni Cantabrigienses... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Part 2, vol. 2, pp. 228-9. [Darwin family entries only] Text Image

and a child in the other.' Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 31, 1825. Called to the Bar, Feb. 8, 1828. Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Lambeth, 1832-7; resigned because he was convinced that the administration of oaths was inconsistent with the teaching of the New Testament. Registrar of Metropolitan carriages, 1837-49. One of the original members of the Philological Society, 1842. Became a confirmed spiritualist in later life. Married, Jan. 10, 1832, Frances Emma, dau. of Sir James Mackintosh

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A291 Book: Venn, J. A. ed. 1944. Alumni Cantabrigienses... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Part 2, vol. 2, pp. 228-9. [Darwin family entries only] Text Image

first edition (250 copies) was sold on the day of publication. Married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, granddaughter of the founder of the Etruria works. He 'always retained a love for Cambridge and happy memory of his life here.' (Emma Darwin, II. 171.) Died Apr. 19, 1882, aged 73, at Down House, Bromley, Kent. Buried in Westminster Abbey. Portrait in the Hall, Christ's College. Father of Francis (1866), George H. (1863), Horace (1868) and William E. (1858); brother of the next. (D.N.B.; Shrewsbury Sch

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A291 Book: Venn, J. A. ed. 1944. Alumni Cantabrigienses... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Part 2, vol. 2, pp. 228-9. [Darwin family entries only] Text Image

Committe on Aeronautics. Chairman of the Air Invention Committe, 1917. K.B.E., 1918. Married Hon. Emma (n e Farrer) and had issue. Interested in the training of mentally deficient children; assisted in establishing a home for them at Girton. Contributed towards the endowment of a studentship in the University for the study of mental diseases. A distinguished inventor whose genius and stimulating influence served to raise the standard of instrument-making in Great Britain to a high level. 'By his

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

Uruguay, 94 5, 166, 169, 213, 215 Uspallata, 117, 232 Valdivia, 108, 114, 231 Valparaiso, 88, 100 1, 103 4, 108, 110, 112, et seq., 121, 123, 224, 228, 232, 238, 239 Van Diemens Land, 135 Ventana, Sierra da, 91, 192, 194 5, 197 8, 200 1 Viedma, Lake, 220 Waterton, Negro fellow traveller of, 20 Wedgwood, Bessy, aunt of Charles, mother of Emma, wife of Josiah, of Maer, 16, 146 Wedgwood, Emma, married Charles, 1840, 11, 15 6 , her account of Charles, 17 , lived at Gower St., 257 Wedgwood, Josiah

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

two volumes. Published by John Murray, 1903. Emma Darwin, A Century of Family Letters, edited by her daughter, Henrietta Litchfield. In two volumes. John Murray, 1915. [page 7

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

Charles and Emma and their growing family at Down, she was uneasy at the children's litter, and tidied away the untidiness as it arose. Emma allowed it to accumulate until it got unbearable, and then called in help. As with the doctor, so with Susan: boys began to be uncongenial animals to her in middle age. She seemed, too, to possess a flair for discovering disagreables . When Charles later visited The Mount with his nineteen-month baby, accompanied only by the nurse-maid, Susan found fault with the

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

thought of England and home. Life at Maer seems to have made a deep impression of happiness on a wide circle of cousins and friends; and was it not the home of Emma, Charles' future wife? There was a sense of freedom absent from The Mount; endless good talk, plenty of books, a pleasant house built of stone, and a garden with enchanted memories of sitting out on summer nights, long conversations, singing, laughter, and listening to the waterfowl on the mere at the bottom of the slope. Charles'

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

Darwins, Emma, A Century of Family Letters, 4, 6 (see also Wedgwood, Emma). Darwin, Erasmus, Charles' brother, 18 9, 120, 125, 138 , character, 12 , paucity of letters, 101 , good at commissions, 102, 112, 116 , gaieties, 104 , and Harriet Martineau, 148 Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, Charles' grand-father, evolutionary views, 19 , lines on the Wedgwood mediallion on Australia, 132, 134 Darwin, Francis, editor of Life and Letters; joint editor with A. C. Seward of More Letters, 3, 4, 6, 151 Darwin, Marianne

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

himself and his wife Emma Wedgwood. The notes ring sadly today, when few of these walls are left standing. Certainly 12 Upper Gower Street, the house finally selected, where he lived for the first years of his married life, is gone, though the jagged wall with the plaque commemorating the fact that Charles Darwin lived here, remained as a ruin for months before final demolition. Mr. Fuller, 8 Albany Place, Regents Park 200 Albany St. 70 per annum No: 161 100 premium. Another further up this street

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

Sound, 130, 133, 135 6 King, Captain Philip Parker, Commander of first voyage, became Rear Admiral and retired to N. South Wales, 49, 127, 132, 147 King, Philip Gidley, Midshipman on H.M.S. Beagle, son of above, 54, 65 L'Aigle Rock, 222 Las Vacas, 214 Lima, 113, 115, 120, 122 3, 125, 243 5 Limerian ladies, 242, 244 Lisbon, 243 Litchfield, Mrs., author of Emma Darwin, daughter of Charles and Emma, 4, 6 Lumb, Mr., 206 Luxan, 207, 236 Lyell, Charles, 148, 243 4, 258 , Principles of Geology, 224 Macae

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

I shall have occasion to refer to the versions and editions of the Beagle Diary. I will here give a short summary in order of their publication, so that the reader may know to which I am referring. This brief bibliography will also include the publications on the Geology and Zoology of the voyage. To Francis Darwin's Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (three volumes), and to Mrs. Litchfield's Emma Darwin (two volumes), and the facts and memories in these works I am more deeply indebted than I

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

was described as looking like a duchess. She must have carried some of the Shrewsbury stiffness with her, for when she was visiting Maer, Emma, the youngest cousin, wrote how nice Caroline was, and settled herself more at home than usual, as though she was accustomed to bring some formality with her, even to that most informal of houses. At this time she worked with gentle perseverance at an infant Sunday school for children under four in Frankland, the poor part of Shrewsbury above which The

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

course. Such poetic pleasures, felt so keenly in after years, I should not have expected so early in life. To fill in the picture of Charles and his sisters in those early days I often wish that we had their side of the correspondence, or that we might join them under the trees in the garden at The Mount and hear them discussing the absent Charles and the latest letter received. Emma Wedgwood might well have been sitting under the trees with the young Darwins on one of the frequently interchanged

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

, he continued sociable, and was not like the rest of the Darwins, who will not say how they really are . She did not think it so important a thing as did Aunt Sarah that he drank no wine, but nevertheless a pleasant thing. Alas! he is no play-goer, but he stands concerts very well , she writes; indeed after a long fast he could become ravenous for the pianoforte . Perhaps his genuine love of music was already on the wane in the busy London period, when Emma wrote; certainly during the voyage his

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

and deprive him of all hopes of the pretty parsonage; it was almost more than he could bear. Perhaps the comforting memories of the sunny Maer flower garden brought the memory of Emma vividly and consolingly to his mind. LETTER NO. 10 [Not previously published] [To Miss Caroline Darwin] BOTOFOGO BAY. April 25th [1832] My dear Caroline, I had sealed up the first letter, all ready to be sent off during my absence: but no good opportunity occurred, and so it and this will go together. I take the

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A6590 Pamphlet: Anon. [1946.] Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House Downe, Kent. British Association for the Advancement of Science. [London: n.p.] 35pp. Text Image PDF

), physician, father of Darwin, who ascribed to him as out-standing characteristics 'a keen power of observation and knowledge of men, qualities which led him to read the characters and even the thoughts of those whom he saw even for a short time.' He was a singularly successful country doctor. 14 *Mrs. Darwin, from a portrait by George Richmond, R.A. She was Emma Wedgwood (1808 96), daughter of Josiah Wedgwood of Maer, and married Charles Darwin, her cousin, in 1839, in which year this portrait

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A6590 Pamphlet: Anon. [1946.] Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House Downe, Kent. British Association for the Advancement of Science. [London: n.p.] 35pp. Text Image PDF

Ode on the Folly of Atheism, by Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Dr. Erasmus Darwin's visiting cards and cardcase. Dr. Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia, or The Laws of Organic Life (2 vols). Notebook by Emma Darwin, July 15, 1812, beginning a list of classes and orders of plants. Letters of Susannah Wedgwood, Darwin's mother, written in 1765 1817. Books from Dr. Erasmus Darwin's library. Below: MS. books of Swedish and Swiss subscribers to the Darwin Memorial. Case H Voyage of the Beagle. *Notebooks kept by