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 |
To Catherine Darwin May–June [1832]
Summary
Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.
The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | May–June [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-169 |
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4.1 Albert Way, comic drawings
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< Back to Introduction The earliest identifiable comic drawings of Darwin are these pen sketches by his Cambridge undergraduate friend Albert Way of Trinity College, which must date from c. 1828-30. They refer to his passion for beetle-collecting – a…
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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was …