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Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: the illness and death of Wedgwood's mother and the sudden blindness of her father; the writings of Huxley, Nasmyth, Coleridge, and Darwin; Wedgwood responding to Welby's "Appeal"; concept of Redemption; the nature of evil; Wedgwood's research on the Talmud; Welby's curiosity about Wedgwood's correspondence with Miss C. Stephen regarding "The Moral Ideal"; gifts of flowers; Welby's aversion to the term "supernatural;" Wedgwood's reflections on her uncle's work "Origin of the Species" ; and their mutual friendship with Mrs. Mary Everest Boole. Wedgwood writes from: 31 Queen Anne Street; 13 Upper Wimpole Street; The Grove, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge; Idle Rocks, Stone, Staffordshire and 94 Gower Street, W.C..

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: closing her parent's London home; arranging her parents' correspondence; gift of flowers; Welby's injury; semantics; mental suffering; ghosts; phantom limbs, love between men and women; Wedgwood's correspondence with Mrs. Russell [Guerney?]; insomnia; the death of Lord Farrer; Welby's writing; Welby's eye trouble in 1901, and not being contacted to contribute letter for a memoir on Gurney; the movment of plants and a critique of the biography of Martineau. Wedgwood writes from: Idle Rocks, Stone, Staffordshire; 16 Landsdowne Road, Notting Hill, W. and 94 Gower Street, W.C.

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's reaction to "Links & Clues"; Ethel Meyer's travels to Egypt; Welby's plans for a second book; a letter to Ethel Meyer from Wedgewood forwarded by Welby on the topic of illness; the departure of "L. von H." (Lily von Hafku?) from Idle Rocks; caution against "diverted passion," the search for a permanent lady companion; the death of Ethel Meyer's cousin Mrs. Cameron who died in childbirth; copies of letters from Ellen Guruly, including a letter containing verse by Mrs. Charles; photographs; Mary Boole; the pre-existence of the soul; cytology; Welby's opinion of Dr. Tayler and mother-sense.
Wedgewood writes from Idle Rock, Stone, Stratford; Leadendale, Blythebridge, Stoke-on-Trent, 3 Whitehall Court SW, 16 Landsdown Road, Holland Pond W, and 94 Gower Street.

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's thoughts on Welby's articles and theories; nature of evil; writings of Thomas Erskine; their mutal friendship with Mary Everest Boole; gifts of flowers; Wedgewood's sister Hope; the death of Mrs. Oliphant; "moral insanity"; Wedgwood meeting Mrs.Hinton; the bigamy scandal of Howard Hinton, who was married to Mrs. Boole's daughter, Mary Ellen; and Wedgwood's advice to Welby about seeking out a leading scientific scholar, Huxley perhaps, to respond to her writing. Wedgwood writes from: 56 George Street, Portman Square, W.; Putney, and Abinger Hall, Dorking.

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: the death of Wedgwood's father; . Wedgwood visit to Denton in December 1891; gifts of flowers; a lunar eclipse in May 1892; Wedgwood's opposition of vivisection; the "sudden insanity of your literary acquaintance"; and their mutual correspondence with Dr. van Eeden. Also includes a clipping from "Women's Herald" from 23 May 1891 featuring an article about Julia Wedgwood. Wedgwood writes from: West Terace Folkestone, and 94 Gower Street, W.C..

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: writings of Huxley, Vernon Lee and the Duke of Argyll; sorrow and depression; gifts of flowers; Wedgwood's trip to Aux les Bains; religious topics and significs. Wedgwood writes from: Leith Hill Place, Dorking; Abinger Hall, Dorking, The Rookery, Richmond, Yorkshire; and 94 Gower Street, W.C..

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood from 1884. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's reading as directed by Welby; their mutual friendship with Mrs. Mary Everest Boole (and conflict arrising from Boole's mental illness, "moral insanity', and charges leveled against a mutual friend); Wedgwood's article on Maurice in the British Quarterly Review; Wedgwood's thoughts of "Links and Clues"; Wedgwood writes from: Cilrhiw Narbert, South Wales and 56 George Street, Portman Square, W.