To W. D. Fox [3 January 1830]
Summary
Spent three weeks in London with Erasmus.
Entomologised with Hope, Stephens, and G. R. Waterhouse.
Cambridge is very quiet, men reading at a wonderful pace. Dined with Sir J. Mackintosh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [3 Jan 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-75 |
To W. D. Fox [13 January 1830]
Summary
Has ordered a cabinet for his insects; hopes WDF will soon come to Cambridge to see his collection. Has exchanged specimens with Leonard Jenyns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-76 |
From Fanny Owen 27 January [1830]
Summary
Had an enjoyable week at "Darwin Hotel" during Hunt Week, with two balls, etc., but missed CD.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1830] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-77 |
To W. D. Fox [25 March 1830]
Summary
CD has passed his "Little Go".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Mar 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-78 |
To W. D. Fox [1 April 1830]
Summary
CD will remain in Cambridge during the whole vacation.
J. F. Stephens has been ill; hence no recent publications.
Has seen a good deal of J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-79 |
To W. D. Fox [9 May 1830]
Summary
Very sorry WDF was obliged to go to Cheltenham with his parents instead of coming to Cambridge, for the weather is fine, the beetles numerous. Adds news of friends and facts about his collection of insects.
Thinks of reading divinity with Henslow the summer after next.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [9 May 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-80 |
To W. D. Fox [31 May 1830]
Summary
Glad WDF will visit him in Shrewsbury.
Hope visited CD; he and T. C. Eyton want CD to join them on an entomological trip to N. Wales; can WDF come?
William Yarrell has discovered a new wild swan in England; CD has had bad specimen of it stuffed for WDF.
Adds brief news of friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [31 May 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-81 |
To W. D. Fox 25 [August 1830]
Summary
Has been in N. Wales two weeks, having gone with Hope and two Eytons. Not many good insects; disillusioned with Hope, found him egotistical and stupid.
Hopes WDF will stay in Cambridge until after CD arrives.
Some entomological news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-82 |
From Fanny Owen [8 September 1830]
Summary
Papa has been expecting CD to come and slay some partridges.
Has heard CD has a horse 18½ hands high.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Sept 1830] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-83 |
To W. D. Fox [8 September 1830]
Summary
Very sorry to hear bad news of Mrs Fox.
Shooting not good, but has done some entomology.
Has enjoyed Maer.
Has a horse which he thinks will make a very good hunter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [8 Sept 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-84 |
From Fanny Owen 4 October [1830]
Summary
News of family, friends, horses.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1830] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-85 |
To W. D. Fox [8 October 1830]
Summary
All at Shrewsbury glad to hear good news of Mrs Fox.
CD left Tuesday by coach and two days’ horseback ride to Cambridge. Goes to the Henslows’ that night.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [8 Oct 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-86 |
To W. D. Fox 5 November [1830]
Summary
CD finds the reading involved in "getting up all my subjects" almost "intolerable"; has had no time to write, or send insects, or catch any.
Glad WDF has heard of a curacy where he may "read all the commandments without endangering [his] throat".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-87 |
To W. D. Fox [27? November 1830]
Summary
CD reading very hard for his examination.
Too busy for beetles.
Trusts WDF will be in orders by Christmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [27? Nov 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-88 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (3) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Fox, W. D. | (11) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (3) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (3) |
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
Matches: 13 hits
- … Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
- … creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR …
- … Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. Instead, the letter was folded and held shut with …
- … awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
- … ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
- … mania go on, are you as constant as ever ?’ In this letter, the postilion and housemaid are …
- … ‘ la belle Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR …
- … Darwin that she would remember him. Responding to a recent letter he had written in a ‘ Blue …
- … there was not to be an end of them!! In her last letter before the Beagle sailed, she …
- … Little wonder that Darwin felt bereft when he learned in a letter from his sister Catherine, …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), in which Fanny …
- … so very engaging and delightful about her.— ’ In the letter accompanying his book in 1872, Darwin …
Early Days
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Grove Press, pages 1 – 83. Letters Letter Packet: Darwin's Early Days …
- … and their first impressions of the city. Letter 20 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [6 Jan …
- … him as “it is so pleasant receiving letters.” Letter 68 —Darwin to William Darwin Fox …
- … the exam he must take to complete his degree. Letter 78 —Darwin to William Darwin Fox …
- … spend Fox’s visit beetling in Cambridgeshire. Letter 98 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [28 …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 29 hits
- … Lindley’s introduction to the Nat System [Lindley 1830] Bevan on the Honey Bee [Bevan 1827]. …
- … and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— account of wild cattle …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … &c Grabas. Ornith. Voyage to Feroe in German [Graba 1830] (read) Gardner’s Brazil …
- … Sageret’s—Pomologies Philosoph. [Sageret 1830] read } praised by Chevreul …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Voyage de l’Astrolabe partie Zoolog. [Quoy and Gaimard 1830–4] Pernety voyage à l’ile …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … on Geology of France [Dufrénoy and Élie de Beaumont 1830–8] & C Prevost on l’Ile Julie [Prévost …
- … 1797] Kotzebue’s two voyages [Kotzebue 1821 and 1830]— skimmed well Lutke’s voyage …
- … Feb 12 Sir H. Davy consolations in travel [H. Davy 1830] —— Observations on morals Eugenius …
- … 22 d Parts of Cobbetts Rural Rides [Cobbett 1830] & Most of Crabbe’s Poems [Crabbe 1807] …
- … Oct 20. Lloyd Field Sports of N. of Europe [L. Lloyd 1830]. (abstracted) Nov 20. Troill …
- … 1801] —— Sir Stamford Raffles Memoirs [S. Raffles 1830]. (poor) —— Whately’s Remarks …
- … —— Sageret Pomologie Physiologique [Sageret 1830] 19 th Abhand. Konig. Ak. Berlin. 1834. …
- … has.?— Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … Hilaire Voyage Rio de Janeiro & Minas Geraes [Saint-Hilaire 1830] Read W. R. Wilde in …
- … Low 1813]. —— 20 th . Sageret Pomologie Physi: 1830 [Sageret 1830] Read this several years …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
- … art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 27 hits
- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
- … 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … naturelle faites dans l’Amérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … méridionale. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 20 (1830): 185–291; 21 (1830): 149–194. (DAR 30.1: …
- … de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … Charles. Principles of geology . . . 3 vols. London, 1830–3. (Inscriptions: vol. 1 (1830), …
- … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
- … James. The history of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South …
- … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
- … and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
- … account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
- … the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society of London 120 (1830): 399–414. ( Red notebook , p. 20e). …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 10 hits
- … voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
- … among naturalists. Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan Thompson’s account of …
- … was challenged in 1859 by August Krohn. As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September …
- … (as Darwin called it in his Autobiography and in his letter to Lyell), was more than a matter of …
- … Toward the end of his study of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( …
- … latter instrument suited his purposes well; he reported in a letter to Richard Owen, 26 March 1848 …
- … and mounting his specimens is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 …
- … Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
- … it was empirically invalid ( Calendar nos. 2118 and 2119, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] …
- … ^9^ CD discussed his conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
Matches: 4 hits
- … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
- … party with him, but Hare reported to Captain Sandilands in 1830 that he had nearly 100 men, women …
- … (i.e. the Admiralty) drawn up by Francis Beaufort in 1830. FitzRoy’s account of the voyage appeared …
- … (c.1786-1832) of HMS Comet visited Cocos Keeling in 1830 (Ross says 1829 in this ms., but other …
5873_1488
Summary
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 13 hits
- … H.M.S. Comet by his chronometer measurements from Madrass in 1830] and the Western extreme is on the …
- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … No more of that sort of occurrences took place until August 1830 – when one of the “trustworthy” …
- … at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
- … the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
- … Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
