To J. B. Innes 18 October 1869
Summary
CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.
Gives Down news.
R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.
CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6942 |
To W. D. Fox [15 March 1829]
Summary
His routine days at Cambridge.
Entomology stopped for the present.
His reading, gambling, and parties. News of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-59 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Recollect: that Deo Volente whether your Parsonage boast of a roof or not I shall pay you …
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. — …
To J. B. Innes 20 January [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.
George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;
Henrietta has been poorly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5792 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to acquire the property in 1860 as a parsonage. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. …
To W. D. Fox 8 [June 1856]
Summary
The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.
Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 [June 1856] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1895 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … CD addressed this letter to the ‘Old Parsonage | High Harrogate’. In a letter written on …
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. — …
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Trollope, Anthony. 1861. Framley parsonage. 3 vols. London. Variation : The variation of …
| letter | (8) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (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 …
