To Caroline Darwin 2–6 April 1832
Summary
CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His mail gave him great pleasure. For two weeks he will visit a large estate in the country, and on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 2–6 Apr 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-164 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … a letter from Charlotte, talking of parsonages in pretty countries & other celestial …
- … this pace I have no chance for the parsonage: I direct of course to you as Miss Darwin. — …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I long for you to be settled in your nice Parsonage. I hope you retain that vision before …
To W. D. Fox May 1832
Summary
Writes of voyage and his work in natural history: geology, collecting insects (freshwater beetles and spiders at Botofogo Bay); life at sea, sublime views ashore.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | May 1832 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-168 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … a stationary, slow sailing craft as a Parsonage: what you are, have, & intend doing. — …
From Caroline Darwin 12[–18] September 1832
Summary
News of the Darwin, Wedgwood, and Owen families, including a report on Frances Wedgwood’s death.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12[–18] Sept 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-185 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … a day dream of seeing you so happy in your Parsonage, again Good bye & God bless you dear …
From Susan Darwin 15[–18] August 1832
Summary
News of family and friends.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15[–18] Aug 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-180 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I am very much pleased to find the quiet Parsonage has still such charms in your eyes. it …
To Caroline Darwin 25–6 April [1832]
Summary
His trip to the interior was full of interest, but exhausting physically. Expects to stay at least a fortnight at Botofogo, because the Beagle returns to Bahia to correct a difference in the longitude measurements. Writes of his companions, of FitzRoy, and of his journal – which he has sent home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 25–6 Apr [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-166 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … have a distant prospect of a very quiet parsonage, & I can see it even through a grove of …
From Fanny Owen 1 March 1832
Summary
Writes affectionately of the good times they have had and of her friendship for CD. Tells him of her forthcoming marriage to R. M. Biddulph.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-162 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and when you do return to the little Parsonage, and want the little wife , “pray give me a …
From Susan Darwin 12–18 November 1832
Summary
Family news.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 & 18 Nov 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-191 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … hears that Robert intends cutting the Parsonage Windows much larger which I am sure won’t …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … but do not let the Cottage put the Parsonage out of your head, a far better thing, and …
From E. A. Darwin 18 August [1832]
Summary
Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-182 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … still look forward to the horrid little parsonage in the desert. I was beginning to hope I …
From Charlotte Wedgwood 12 January – 1 February 1832
Summary
Writes about Hensleigh Wedgwood’s marriage to Frances Mackintosh and her own engagement to Charles Langton. Also gives news of other relatives and friends.
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 and 29 Jan 1832 and 1 Feb 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-155 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … forward to seeing you established in your parsonage but now I suppose I shall receive you …
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Langton, Charlotte | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (1) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Charlotte | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (3) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … ‘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 …
