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 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 …
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 Caroline Darwin 13 January 1833
Summary
Family news. Uncle Jos [Josiah Wedgwood II] has been returned to Parliament with a fine majority.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-195 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … health come home & think of your snug parsonage— I finished my last letter at Overton. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (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 …
