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 |
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 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 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 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
