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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-308

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[5 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 185
Summary:

CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-309

From:
William Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 138
Summary:

Welcomes CD home; urges him to come to Woodhouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-312

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19–]20 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 135
Summary:

Sends news of his movements since Beagle put in at Falmouth. His charts are safe and already being engraved.

Announces his engagement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-315

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[24 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

They are impatient for CD’s arrival.

EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".

CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-316

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:

CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000882

From:
Thomas Monck Mason
To:
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
Date:
24 October 1836
Source of text:
MM/14/150, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday0943a

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
October 1836
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.1-23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0944

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Percy Drummond
Date:
20 October 1836
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 16, f.139
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0945

From:
Antonio Lombardi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 October 1836
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0946

From:
Arthur Aikin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 October 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0947

From:
Whitlock Nicholl
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 October 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I012
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11733

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[13 October 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.95 (C: RS:HS 21.212)
Summary:

Reports on JH's actinometer observations. Explains why he subscribed to 'Col. [Harry] Smith's piece of plate.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3795

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1836-10]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Asks for TM's barometer and thermometer readings for 20-28 September.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3935

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
12] October [1836
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Compares JH's and TM's barometric readings. Criticizes Pierre Morin's work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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