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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
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
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
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