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DCP-LETT-307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
[5 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 185
Summary:

Happily home, he sends thanks to his "first Lord of the Admiralty". Will visit Maer in two or three weeks.

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DCP-LETT-310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
6 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 114
Summary:

CD describes his happy home-coming. Finds his family and Shrewsbury unchanged.

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DCP-LETT-311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 31 DAR/1/1/31)
Summary:

His joy at being home. Anxious to see JSH for advice on his geological specimens.

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DCP-LETT-313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
24 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 48
Summary:

Last four days have been spent calling on naturalists. Geologists have been kind, but zoologists seem to think a number of undescribed creatures a nuisance.

Will send his belongings to Cambridge, but eventually his quarters must be London.

FitzRoy is to be married.

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DCP-LETT-314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
24 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 41567: 248–50)
Summary:

Congratulates CW on his marriage. Waiting in London till Beagle arrives in Woolwich.

Describes recent visit to Henslow in Cambridge.

At a loss to arrange specimens and observations.

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DCP-LETT-317

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[30–1 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 32 DAR/1/1/32)
Summary:

CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.

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