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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[4 or 11] Oct 1831
Source of text:
DAR 144: 113
Summary:

CD’s luggage is frightfully bulky, though he has been as economical as possible. Has made financial arrangements for his expenses.

Plans to study mathematics during voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 or 11] Oct 1831
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 8 DAR/1/1/8)
Summary:

Asks JSH to take charge of his consignments of specimens from the voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Oct 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 53
Summary:

Their letters crossed; she now knows he will be gone for three years, not two; does not know what they will do without him at the Forest, but wishes him well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[10 Oct 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 114
Summary:

Has just heard Beagle sailing is delayed so he will remain another week in London. Asks whether RF has a good set of mountain barometers, which geologists tell him are important.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 108
Summary:

Gives CD directions for sending him specimens from Beagle.

Writes of Cambridge politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
30 [Oct 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 9 DAR/1/1/9)
Summary:

Hopes to be able to help Cambridge Philosophical Society with his collections, but thinks most will have to go to British Museum.

Describes Beagle quarters, the surgeon [Robert McCormick, M.D.], and officers.

Asks JSH’s advice on studying mathematics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[31?] Oct [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 31
Summary:

Questions about his college bills.

Describes the living conditions he will have on the Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project