From Caroline Darwin [21 February 1837]
Summary
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Feb 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-345 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
To Caroline Darwin [19 May – 16 June 1837]
Summary
Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.
Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [19 May – 16 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-360 |
From Catherine and Caroline Sarah Darwin [16 February 1837]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-344 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (4) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
