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 J. S. Henslow 15–21 January 1833
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of two letters from CD and a box of specimens.
Mentions attendance at BAAS meeting and a gift to him of a small living near Oxford. Some political news.
Congratulates CD on the work he has done – the specimens are of great interest. Gives advice on packing, labelling, and future collecting and suggests that – as a precaution – CD send home a copy of his notes on the specimens.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 21 Jan 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-196 |
From W. D. Fox 23 January 1833
Summary
His health has improved but he continues "a good deal of an invalid" and is uncertain what the future holds for him.
His interest in entomology and ornithology continues; he has been studying the gulls on the Isle of Wight.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-197 |
From Susan Darwin 3–6 March 1833
Summary
Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;
SD brings family news up to date.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 & 6 Mar 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-200 |
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 Susan Darwin 22–31 July 1833
Summary
News of family and friends after skipping June letter: Osmaston and the Foxes, five weeks in London, the Langtons in Shropshire, Fanny Biddulph and daughter, R. W. Darwin, and Charles Hughes.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 & 31 July 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-211 |
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 J. S. Henslow 31 August 1833
Summary
The [Megatherium] fossils were extremely interesting and were shown at the Geological Section of the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [1833].
The plants delight him; will work them out with W. J. Hooker.
CD should send every fossil he can find; minute insects will be nearly all new. Delighted with descriptions of the few animals alluded to.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 97(ser. 2): 14–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-213 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 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 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 |
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 |
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 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 |
letter | (25) |
Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |
Darwin, Catherine | (4) |
Langton, Catherine | (4) |
Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |
Darwin, Catherine | (4) |
Langton, Catherine | (4) |