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 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 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 |
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 R. W. Darwin and the Misses Darwin to J. S. Henslow 1 February 1833
Summary
Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-199 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
