From Catherine Darwin 14 October [1832]
Summary
Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree
and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].
Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-187 |
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- … I long for you to be settled in your nice Parsonage. I hope you retain that vision before …
From Catherine Darwin 27 September 1833
Summary
Mainly Shropshire news of family and friends.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-217 |
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- … was much amused by it. — The present Parsonage house is such a miserable ruinous concern, …
From Catherine Darwin 25 July [– 3 August] 1832
Summary
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-179 |
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- … but do not let the Cottage put the Parsonage out of your head, a far better thing, and …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (3) |
| Langton, Catherine | (3) |
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Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … ‘I find I steadily have a distant prospect of a very quiet parsonage, & I can see it even …
- … last letter that you still look forward to the horrid little parsonage in the desert. I was …
- … of a resident curate and the maintenance of a local parsonage. The right to appoint was known as an …
- … system. The living was comparatively small, and the local parsonage had been sold. In fact, some …
- … had property of his own in the village, and did not need a parsonage. When he left the village for …
- … the unsuccessful attempts to arrange the construction of a parsonage, and with Innes’s approval the …
