From R. W. Darwin 7 March 1833
Summary
Writes of the pleasure all feel in CD’s continued good health and joy in his voyage.
Tells of the banana tree he bought, which he sits under and thinks of CD "in similar shade".
CD’s financial accounts are correct.
Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-201 |
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 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 |
From Robert FitzRoy [1833?]
Summary
List of mountains with their heights.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1833?] |
Classmark: | DAR 40: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-194 |
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 Caroline Darwin 7 March [1833]
Summary
Sends her love and family news.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar [1833] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-202 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 Caroline Darwin 13 January 1833
Summary
Family news. Uncle Jos [Josiah Wedgwood II] has been returned to Parliament with a fine majority.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-195 |
From Caroline Darwin 30 December [1833] – 3 January 1834
Summary
News of family and friends. Hensleigh Wedgwood’s scruples about swearing oaths.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec [1833] & 3 Jan 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-234 |
From Caroline Darwin 1–4 May 1833
Summary
News of family and friends.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1–4 May 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-205 |
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 29 May 1833
Summary
She and Susan are in London, and she writes of people they have seen or had news of: Captain Harding, E. A. Darwin, Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood, Emma Wedgwood, the Langtons, Josiah Wedgwood and Aunt Bessie, Fanny Biddulph and child, and the Evanses of Portrane.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-208 |
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 |
From Robert FitzRoy 24 [August 1833]
Summary
Wishes CD well on his trip to General Juan Manuel Rosas. CD is to send word when he wants a boat; there is no hurry, for there is plenty of work for the sounders. He envies CD’s travels.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 [Aug 1833] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-212 |
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 |
letter | (39) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |
Darwin, Catherine | (4) |
Langton, Catherine | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Darwin, Caroline | (10) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (10) |
Henslow, J. S. | (6) |
Darwin, Catherine | (5) |