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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
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CHAPTER XIX - 1888–1891
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
- Plate section
Summary
My father's one surviving sister, Caroline, the wife of Josiah Wedgwood, of Leith Hill Place, died on January 5, 1888.
Jan. 8th, 1888.
I feel that I have lost the only real link with old times. I do not count my brothers, as I think most men, and they especially, do not like remembering.
I keep almost the last letter which speaks so warmly of caring for my letters, and I am glad that I wrote more often than usual lately. Hers was a very wonderful nature in the power of her affections and interests conquering such discomfort as she constantly had. She even spoke warmly of having enjoyed my last visit and I believe she did at times.
Friday, Jan. 1888.
Bessy and I felt very sober not to say dull yesterday evening, and began Lady Mary Wortley which will do- such odd love letters. Good-bye, my dear, I miss you sadly.
She had not been well early in the year, but in March had recovered and wrote to me at Cannes, where I had gone for my health:
March 11th, 1888.
Last night B. and I went to the Orchard for some music. It felt cheerful to be like anybody else and I enjoyed it, though as ill-luck would have it, Miss R. played part of the Sonata Pathétique, which I know too well and do not much like at that.
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- Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles DarwinA Century of Family Letters, pp. 381 - 413Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904