From Caroline Darwin 1 September 1833
Summary
News of family and friends. "I tell you all the gossip I can that you may know how the Shropshire world is going on."
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-214 |
To Caroline Darwin 20 September [1833]
Summary
With the help of General Rosas, CD has just finished an overland journey from Patagones to Buenos Aires; he tells of fossil finds at Bahia Blanca and Guardia del Monte. Spring reminds him of home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-215 |
To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833
Summary
Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20–7] Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-216 |
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 |
From Robert FitzRoy 4 October 1833
Summary
Urges CD to return to the Beagle early in November. Conrad Martens arrives to succeed Augustus Earle as artist for the expedition.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-218 |
From Susan Darwin 15 October 1833
Summary
Mainly news of the family and friends. Their joy at the abolition of slavery.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-219 |
From Sarah Williams 21 October 1833
Summary
News of Fanny Biddulph and other Owens; Susan Darwin has declined a marriage offer. Other gossip about Shrewsbury acquaintances.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-220 |
From Fanny Myddelton Biddulph [c. 21 October 1833]
Summary
Shropshire news of relatives and friends.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 21 Oct 1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-221 |
To Caroline Darwin 23 [October 1833]
Summary
Describes his trip to north of Santa Fé, his illness, and return by boat to Buenos Aires – which he found in the throes of a revolution. Covington is cut off from the town, which some expect to be plundered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 23 [Oct 1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-222 |
To W. D. Fox 25 October 1833
Summary
Writes of his ride from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires, which he undertook in order to learn the geology of the land, so full of bones of large extinct quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46c) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-223 |
From Caroline Darwin 28 October [1833]
Summary
Finds CD’s journal very entertaining and interesting, but thinks his style in first part too much influenced by Humboldt.
Sends some books by Harriet Martineau and Archbishop Whately.
Rejoices that the more he sees of Negroes, the better he thinks of them.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-224 |
From Catherine Darwin 29 October 1833
Summary
Finds his journal interesting; they will read it aloud to Papa on winter evenings. They all regret the long time the journey is taking.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-225 |
From Henry Stephen Fox 31 October 1833
Summary
Urges CD to visit Flores Island near Montevideo if he has not already done so. Describes formation of greenstone and the granite formations on small islands in the Uruguay channel.
Sends specimens from Pôrto Alegre [Brazil] for identification by CD.
| Author: | Henry Stephen Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39.1: 1–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-226 |
To F. W. Hope 1 November 1833
Summary
Tierra del Fuego and the barren coasts of Patagonia are "singularly unfavourable to the insect world". In the tropics, however, CD captured minute Coleoptera by the hundreds – which should result in his bringing home many undescribed species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick William Hope |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-227 |
From T. C. Eyton 12 November 1833
Summary
Has been working hard on collecting English and foreign birds. Yarrell has written of new birds discovered in England.
News of work in progress by Leonard Jenyns, P. J. Selby, and John Gould.
Cautions CD to beware of insects when he sends any birds’ skins – otherwise there will be only feathers, beaks, and legs remaining when he returns.
| Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-228 |
To J. S. Henslow 12 November 1833
Summary
Is sending a cargo of specimens – birds’ skins, small quadrupeds, and fossil bones.
Describes his overland trip from Rio Negro to Buenos Aires and his expedition to Santa Fé.
Asks for mineralogical works to help him with the volcanic rocks of the west coast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 20 DAR/1/1/20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-229 |
To Caroline Darwin 13 November 1833
Summary
His troubles during the revolution have ended well.
Now plans to investigate geological formations at Rio Negro. Is concerned about the expense but cannot bear to miss seeing "one of the most curious pieces of Geology".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-230 |
From Edward Lumb 13 November 1833
Summary
Sending shot or powder is illegal, but all CD’s goods and chattels have been sent. EL’s services to CD are what any Englishman should do for his country.
| Author: | Edward Lumb |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-231 |
From Catherine Darwin 27 November 1833
Summary
Mentions letters sent in parcel and those from CD received by Fox and Henslow. Adds news of family and friends.
Appreciation of his journal. She hears that CD’s "theory of the Earth" is the same as Lyell’s in 3d volume [of Principles of geology (1833)].
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-232 |
To Susan Darwin 3 December [1833]
Summary
Has had to draw bills totalling £217 in seven months.
Is glad the Captain has decided to winter in Tierra del Fuego, because this will facilitate "glorious excursions" into the Andes.
Has obtained fragments of fossil bones and part of a Megatherium head.
Their long delay occurred because the charts were not complete for sending home.
CD is now on shore because of seasickness.
The family may not hear from him for a year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-233 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (6) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (11) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (11) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (8) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (6) |
That monstrous stain: To J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833
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Darwin did not consider himself to be a particularly good writer, but many of his letters contain not just a wealth of information, but also beautifully expressed descriptions and impressions that would be the envy of any essayist or novelist. Such is the…
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- … Abolition Act (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) was passed in August 1833 and came into force a year later. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( Correspondence vol. 1): …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … electric explosion ( from Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 ) During the voyage it was …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Key letters: Letter to J. S. Henslow, 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite secondary sources (DAR 33: 254 …
- … 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … signatures of the members . . . who met at Cambridge, June 1833. With a report of the proceedings . …
- … Report of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 …
- … de M. Gay. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October 1833). Darwin Library–CUL ††. …
- … . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 369–93. (DAR 35.2: 396). …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. (DAR 37.2: 797). …
- … ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). Maskelyne, Nevil. Tables …
- … of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar . . . 2 vols. London, 1833. ( Red notebook , p. 64). …
- … (Vols. 3–7 inscribed ‘Chas. Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, …
- … Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). Ulloa, A. de. See Juan, G. and …
- … London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147–236. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck 1833].— —Have read it. Ogleby Temminck. …
- … of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : French [? Annales de la …
- … Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in …
- … Darby’s Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil …
- … Lives of Kepler & Galileo. Drinkwater [J. E. Drinkwater] 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French …
- … Boisduval is author of Fauna of Madagascar [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de …
- … countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du …
- … 5 s 1834–43 1. Humming Birds, Vol. 1 [Jardine 1833]. 3. Humming Birds, Vol 2 …
- … 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes lives [Drinkwater 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of …
- … [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] Wilkinson’s Egyptian remains [?J. G. …
- … 10 th Surville-Marion [Crozet 1783]. Fanning [Fanning 1833], Dixon [G. Dixon ed. 1789]. Voyages …
- … other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed …
- … (for second time) Whewell’s Bridgewater Treatise [Whewell 1833] March 1 st . Philosoph. …
- … —— 28 th Glöger Abanden der Vogel [Glöger 1833].— Dec r . 1 Meyens Geography of Plants …
- … Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou ]. Vols for 1833, 1837, 1838, 1842, 43, 44—not all …
- … ed. 1837], notes by W. Herbert, Rennie [J. Rennie] ed. 1833]. 6. H. Miller First Impressions …
- … very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor —— 20 th Thiers …
- … la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux ] Tom VI. & VII. 1833–1835 118 22 d . Bulletin …
- … Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ] Tom. I (lost). II 1833. III 1834. & IV 1835: …
- … 22] 1858 Hewitsons Oology [Hewitson [1833–42].— Nov. 12. Yarrell’s …
- … 18 The entries from ‘Volneys’ to [Temminck 1833] on page [5v.] are taken from the inside back …
- … Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert White’s Natural History …
- … ed. (1844) in Darwin Library.] 119: 8a ——. 1833. The hand. Its mechanism and vital …
- … of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of …
- … *119: 20v. Boisduval de Chauffour, Jean Alphonse. 1833. Faune entomologique de …
- … 16b [Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune, John Elliot]. 1833. Lives of eminent persons, …
- … and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 1833, 1834 . London. 119: 3a …
- … countries . Hereford. 119: 1a Fanning, Edmund. 1833. Voyages round the world: with …
- … Mrs. P. Sinnett. London. 119: 17b Finch, John. 1833. Travels in the United States of …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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George Keen
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George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…
Adam Sedgwick
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One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…
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- … One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., 23 May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. …
Edward Lumb
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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … 196 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, C. R., 15 & 21 Jan [1833] Henslow acknowledges receipt of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … shoot and skin birds, Darwin employed him as his servant in 1833. Covington accompanied Darwin on …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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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 …
Inland expeditions
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Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe
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- … Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe …
Titus Coan
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In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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- … Coan had landed at Gregory Bay (now in Chile) on 14 November 1833, and left again on 25 January 1834 …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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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 …
