To ? [after 1836?]
Summary
[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 1836?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13858 |
From C. D. Douglas 5 January 1836
Summary
Reports in detail on the 20 Feb 1835 earthquake and on volcanic activity into December of 1835. Encloses a letter sent to him describing the earthquake.
| Author: | Charles D. Douglas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39.1: 5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-292 |
To Phillip Parker King [21 January 1836]
Summary
CD informs PPK of his impending arrival at Dunheved, Penrith; news of his journey thus far.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Phillip Parker King |
| Date: | [21 Jan 1836] |
| Classmark: | Bathurst District Historical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-293 |
To Susan Darwin 28 January 1836
Summary
CD’s impressions of Sydney and of FitzRoy’s character and temperament.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-294 |
To J. S. Henslow [28–9] January 1836
Summary
His joy at prospect of journey’s end in eight months’ time.
Observations on Australia.
Reports on his collecting in Galapagos – its flora and very curious birds; its instructive geology.
Tahiti and good work of missionaries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [28–9] Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 29 DAR/1/1/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-295 |
From Catherine Darwin 29 January 1836
Summary
They have been reading about the wreck of the Challenger; much impressed by Capt. FitzRoy’s bravery.
The W. D. Foxes have a daughter. Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 28–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-296 |
From Susan Darwin 12 February 1836
Summary
CD’s 27th birthday. News of family and friends. A niece, Mary Susan Parker, born 31 January.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97(ser. 2): 30–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-297 |
To Catherine Darwin 14 February 1836
Summary
All prefer Hobart Town and its society to Sydney. CD’s view on emigration to colonies. All on board are homesick.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-298 |
To W. D. Fox 15 February 1836
Summary
Finds the voyage tedious at present.
Expects that the different scientific societies will be of the greatest use to his work in London when he returns home.
Gives some impressions of Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1836 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-299 |
From Caroline Darwin 28 March 1836
Summary
News of friends and family.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 32–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-300 |
To Caroline Darwin 29 April 1836
Summary
Keeling Islands, his first coral lagoons; he has been occupied with subject of coral formation for six months.
Very busy at sea rewriting old geological notes. Has difficulties with writing.
FitzRoy has proposed joint account of the journey, combining CD’s journal with his own.
Looks forward with anxiety to Henslow’s reaction to the geological notes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-301 |
To Catherine Darwin 3 June 1836
Summary
Will call on Sir J. Herschel, then take short trip in the African desert.
Horrified at the publication of "the little book of extracts" from his letters to Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 3 June 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-302 |
To South African Christian Recorder 28 June 1836
Summary
A defence of the work of missionaries in the Pacific islands and Australia. [The letter was apparently written by RF with supporting evidence quoted from CD’s journal. The letter is signed by RF alone. A summary conclusion, as printed, is signed by both:] "On the whole, balancing all that we have heard, and all that we ourselves have seen concerning the missionaries in the Pacific, we are very much satisfied that they thoroughly deserve the warmest support, not only of individuals, but of the British Government."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | South African Christian Recorder |
| Date: | 28 June 1836 |
| Classmark: | South African Christian Recorder 2(1836): 238 Reprint in Darwin Library—CUL: ‘Philosophical tracts’ |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-303 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 July 1836
Summary
Asks JSH to propose him for Geological Society. His meeting with Sir John Herschel and Andrew Smith at Cape of Good Hope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 9 July 1836 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 30 DAR/1/1/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-304 |
To Caroline Darwin 18 July 1836
Summary
In five days of geologising on St Helena, he found that the shells on high land had been mistakenly identified as seashells. They are land shells, but of species no longer living.
Can think of nothing but the return to England and his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 18 July 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-305 |
To Susan Darwin 4 August [1836]
Summary
Beagle is again in Brazil because of need to check on "singular disagreements in the Longitudes".
Pleased by Sedgwick’s praise.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-306 |
To Josiah Wedgwood II [5 October 1836]
Summary
Happily home, he sends thanks to his "first Lord of the Admiralty". Will visit Maer in two or three weeks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-307 |
Caroline Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood [5 October 1836]
Summary
CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-308 |
From William Owen Sr 5 October [1836]
Summary
Welcomes CD home; urges him to come to Woodhouse.
| Author: | William Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-309 |
To Robert FitzRoy 6 October [1836]
Summary
CD describes his happy home-coming. Finds his family and Shrewsbury unchanged.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-310 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (5) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (5) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (4) |
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … Beagle letters (e.g. letter to Caroline Darwin, 29 April 1836 ) to the more considered and …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … no effect. ’ Darwin and Herbert spent Christmas 1836 together in Cambridge , indulging their …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] …
- … 1829] Prostitution of Paris [Parent-Duchâtelet 1836]. about licentiousness destroying their …
- … has pub. in 1 st vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea Botany R. …
- … Col. le Couteur has written on wheat [Le Couteur 1836] Bechstein on Caged Birds. 10 s 6 d …
- … [?Heisch 1842] Coleridge. Literary Remains [Coleridge 1836–9] Inconsistency of Human …
- … and Duméril 1821] Encyclop of Anat & Phys [Todd ed. 1836–59] [DAR *119: 14] …
- … 36s.— Wiegmann. Archif fur Naturgeschicte. 33 1836. Meyen on distrib of plants in …
- … race-horse during past & present century. Hookham” [Anon. 1836]: worth looking at. Low has …
- … Königlichen Akad: der Wissen: Aus dem Jahre 1834.— Berlin 1836.— “Vergleich: Anat der Myxinoiden”. …
- … (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] [DAR *119: 19v.] …
- … Cattle, &c.) [Jardine 1835–6] 15. Parrots [Selby 1836]. 26. Honey Bees [Jardine ed …
- … Life of L d . Clive. by Malcolm [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— …
- … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
- … [DAR 119: 4a] Lessings Laocoon [Lessing 1836] Whewell inductive History [Whewell …
- … 1835] Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833 …
- … Sept. 25 th . Prichard. Physical Researches [Prichard 1836–47]. Volumes II with references at end …
- … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
- … Cyprinidae from the vol 19. Asiatic Researches [McClelland 1836].— References at end.—— …
- … 1823] & first 2 d 71 vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7] 26 th . Carlyle. Hero …
- … prolix —— 3 d vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. Giaour [Byron 1813] —— Some …
- … —— Col. le-Couteur on Wheat [Le Couteur 1836]. marked.— 25 Youatt on Sheep [Youatt 1837] d …
- … & Letters [Shelley 1840].— Some Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. —— Part of Waltons lives …
- … Mahons Hist. Peace of Utrecht to La Chapelle [Stanhope 1836–54] III Vols. —— 17 th Laing …
- … 1842] —— Finished Wordsworth 6 vols. [Wordsworth 1836–7] [DAR 119: 12a] …
- … [Drury 1729] —— 20 Astoria.— by Irving [Irving 1836] 1844 Jan 7 th …
- … Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss Hainfell [Hall 1836]. April 26 th : Martin Chuzzlewit …
- … Yarrell does not compare British with N. American [Yarrell 1836].— March I. G. St. Hilaire …
- … 1844] Jan 5 th . L d . Mahon History [Stanhope 1836–54] IV vol: 14 Thaleba by …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest …
- … FitzRoy, who commanded the Beagle from 1828 to 1836 during two surveying voyages to the southern …
- … When the Beagle docked at Falmouth on 2 October 1836, two years later than originally planned, …
- … !!!!!!! ’. He wed his long-term fiancée in December 1836—‘ a most inconvenient time to marry ’, …
- … but adamant in the importance of missionary work. In 1836, Darwin joined with FitzRoy in …
- … Instead, after marrying the pious Mary O’Brien in 1836, and publishing the account of the Beagle …
- … will be his end,’ Darwin wrote about FitzRoy in January 1836, ‘ under many circumstances I am sure, …
- … Anderson, ed., Narrative of the Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 , 4 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … and the five years of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle . In 1836, the twenty-seven-year-old traveller …
- … society When Darwin returned to England in October 1836 it was with the firm intention of …
- … in the ornithological notes written during the summer of 1836, when, homeward bound, he was …
- … ‘Ornithological notes’ p. 262). In the winter of 1836 the question of the stability of …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … of a satirical account of the Beagle ’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the …
- … century, the circumnavigation of HMS Beagle in 1831 to 1836. Our other substantial accounts of …
- … the end of that Beagle voyage, over twelve days in April 1836 before the Beagle headed home via …
- … Beagle , titled Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831-1836 . It was accompanied by an …
- … before replacing Beechey as commander of HMS Sulphur in 1836. In Sulphur , he spent nearly …
- … Leisk was present when the Beagle visited the islands in 1836, and FitzRoy baptized the Leisk …
- … from a British ship that stopped at Cocos- Keeling in early 1836 en route from China to London; …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … letter from Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood, [28 October 1836] , letter from Emma Wedgwood and …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836 . By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … , p. 196). In another field notebook, at Cape Town in May 1836, he lists, probably with the …
- … some of his idiosyncratic spelling during the summer of 1836 (Sulloway 1982b, pp. 331–2, n. 13). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder, 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 20). ‡ …
- … ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836’). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 20). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 28). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 26). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 22–3). …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Charles Thomas Whitley
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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … the Royal Academy in 1837, and therefore probably painted in 1836), also represents the Beagle …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Letter 297 — Darwin, S. E. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Feb 1836 Darwin’s sister Sarah E. Darwin …
The Beagle voyage ends
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The Beagle anchors in Falmouth
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- … The Beagle anchors in Falmouth …
Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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- … returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Some naturalists, such as Jean …
