Notes on marriage [after 7 Apr 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8 :1, DAR 210.8: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409 |
Notes on marriage [July 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-420 |
From Emma Wedgwood [30 December 1838]
Summary
Seeks to persuade CD to leave town at once, go to Shrewsbury for doctoring and some rest, then come to Maer for more rest, for he has looked "so unwell". She knows it must be hard for him to be unable to do his work.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-465 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [14 November 1838]
Summary
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-435 |
From Emma Wedgwood [23 December 1838]
Summary
Describes the journey home and the long talks on their return. No maid has been found, so he should engage the one she saw, "for ten guineas & tea & sugar a year". She thought CD looked unwell and overtired.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-460 |
From Caroline Wedgwood [11 November 1838]
Summary
Expresses her pleasure at CD’s engagement.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-431 |
To Charles Wood 24 May 1838
Summary
Asks for permission to have a copy of the published Admiralty chart of the Island of Ascension. The engraved chart will add value to the geological observations to be published in the natural history of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wood, Lord Halifax, 1st Viscount Halifax |
| Date: | 24 May 1838 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM 1/4548 PRO D 170) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-415A |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 December 1838]
Summary
She agrees that London is the place to settle. She is eager to see him and full of plans.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-449 |
From Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Summary
Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-464 |
From J. S. Henslow [after 3 November 1838]
Summary
Whilst a genus of plants is comon to two of three islands [in the Galápagos] the species are often different in different islands. [Text only known from Journal of researches; published in Correspondence vol. 13 supplement, p. 351, letter to John Stevens Henslow, 3 November 1838, n. 5.]
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | Journal of researches, p. 629 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-431F |
From Emma Wedgwood [25–6 November 1838]
Summary
Responds to items in CD’s letter, just received. Suggests parts of London where he might look for a house. Gives news of friends and relatives.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 or 26] Nov 1838 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-444 |
From Emma Wedgwood [30 November 1838]
Summary
Has accepted the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’ invitation to go to London with them; can look at houses with CD. She wishes to avoid extravagance; asks him to choose three or four for her to see.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-447 |
From Emma Wedgwood [26 December 1838]
Summary
Responds to his "business letter" about the maids, then chides herself for feeling dull and disagreeable when she has had everything all her life.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-462 |
From Emma Wedgwood [21–2 November 1838]
Summary
Writes lovingly of small events since he left Maer. Fears their opinions may differ on "the most important subject", religion, but is grateful for his openness about his "honest & conscientious doubts".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21–2 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-441 |
From Francis Beaufort 26 May [1838]
Summary
Has been commanded to supply CD with a copy of the plan of Ascension Island to be engraved for the natural history of the Beagle’s voyage. Suggests that a lithographer be sent to the [Hydrographic] office to take a transfer proof.
| Author: | Francis Beaufort |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May [1838] |
| Classmark: | United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no. 8, p. 190) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-415B |
To ? [February 1838 – February 1841?]
Summary
Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?] |
| Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864 |
From Francis Walker 6 July [1838]
Summary
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July [1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421 |
From B. J. Sulivan [November 1838 – April 1839]
Summary
Observations on the geology of the Falkland Islands.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Nov 1838 – Apr 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 20–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13847 |
To [unidentified] 12 September [1838]
Summary
Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-427 |
From J. S. Henslow 16 December 1838
Summary
On his 15th wedding anniversary JSH writes to CD wishing him happiness as great as JSH has had in his marriage, and adds some advice.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1838 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-456 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Darwin, Emma | (8) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (8) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Langton, Charlotte | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (84) |
| Darwin, Emma | (15) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (15) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
