Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
To [Frederick Wollaston Hutton] 8 December [1864]
Summary
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
Date: | 8 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4710 |
To Caroline Darwin 30 March – 12 April 1833
Summary
Account of the four-month voyage to Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn, and return. The Fuegians are landed with Richard Matthews [the missionary in charge of them]. Storms, seasickness, hostile savages, and scenery are described. His increasing interest in all branches of natural history makes the hardships worth while. FitzRoy buys a schooner. CD will stay at Rio Negro while it is fitted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 30 Mar – 12 Apr 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-203 |
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- … four-month voyage to Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn, and return. The Fuegians are landed with …
- … you is saying a good deal. — We doubled Cape Horn on a beautiful afternoon; it was however …
- … knocking about, we only reached false Cape Horn a few miles distant. — This finale gale …
- … 2: 120–1). About 35 miles north-west of Cape Horn. George Anson , later Admiral, commander …
- … two ships in storms while rounding Cape Horn. This is denied by Esteban Lucas Bridges , …
- … Horn, or rather passing the St s . of Magellan, for the Captain had enough of the great sea at the Cape …
To J. M. Herbert 2 June 1833
Summary
Describes Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn; was reminded of hours at Barmouth; chafes at the length of the trip.
Hopes the Whigs will do away with slavery – has seen enough of it and Negroes to be disgusted with the lies heard in England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 2 June 1833 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-209 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February – 16 [March] 1848
Summary
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158 |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 June [1871]
Summary
Discusses homologies in various animal groups.
Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7793 |
To W. H. Miller 22 [November 1839]
Summary
Asks if WHM would be interested in the meteorological observations of the Falkland Islands made by B. J. Sulivan on a recent survey. Such observations are rare and appear to CD to have many points of interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 22 [Nov 1839] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-546 |
To W. D. Fox [12–13] November 1832
Summary
Sketches the Beagle’s travels – Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, cruise to the south and return – and what the future holds. Writes with nostalgia of England and says he sees no end to the voyage.
He enjoys and has been lucky principally in geology and among pelagic animals; has found remains of large extinct animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [12–13] Nov 1832 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-189 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1843 – 11 January 1844]
Summary
Henslow has sent him CD’s Galapagos plants along with Macrae’s. JDH impressed by the island endemism, which "overturns all our preconceived notions" on centres of radiation. Describes the extent, and the sharp demarcation at longitude 60° W, of the American and European Northern Hemisphere floras. CD’s plants among those he is using to do Antarctic flora. Drimys winteri shows a graded series of states down the length of the South American continent.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1843 – 11 Jan 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-723 |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
From Alexander Agassiz 4 March 1872
Summary
Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin.
Is working on Echini.
The more material he gets the less easy it is to diagnose a genus or species. Has little doubt that "classification is nothing but the most arbitrary convenient tool, depending upon the material at our command at a special time".
Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8236 |
From B. J. Sulivan 7 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9273 |
From Robert FitzRoy [19–]20 October [1836]
Summary
Sends news of his movements since Beagle put in at Falmouth. His charts are safe and already being engraved.
Announces his engagement.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19–]20 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-312 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 3 September 1844]
Summary
Suggests there is a direct relation between temperature and abundance of plant species.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 3 Sept 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-774 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 4 March 1847]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 4 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1066 |
From B. J. Sulivan 3 November 1878
Summary
Encloses a letter [missing] on the progress of the Fuegians.
His eldest son has married.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11734 |
From W. P. Snow 21 November 1881
Summary
Is planning a revised edition of his Cruise in Tierra del Fuego [1857], and finds his opinions on the natives the reverse of CD’s.
Hopes he may call some time.
Author: | William Parker Snow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13495 |
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 |
To Edward Lumb 30 March 1834
Summary
CD asks the time of shipment and vessel in which the [Megatherium] bones were conveyed.
Patagonia swarms with guanaco, but few other creatures.
Hopes to be able to draw up a tolerable sketch of the geology of the east side of S. America.
Saw Jemmy Button, who is married and will stay in Tierra del Fuego. Mentions Falkland uprising.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Lumb |
Date: | 30 Mar 1834 |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-241 |
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Sulivan, B. J. | (3) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (2) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Andersson, C. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (3) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Beagle voyage networks in Commentary
Boat Memory
Summary
Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by …
Elleparu (York Minster)
Summary
Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…
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- … Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
Summary
Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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- … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
Summary
Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He …