From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
CD’s impressions of Sydney and of FitzRoy’s character and temperament.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
14 Feb 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
All prefer Hobart Town and its society to Sydney. CD’s view on emigration to colonies. All on board are homesick.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
29 Apr 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
Keeling Islands, his first coral lagoons; he has been occupied with subject of coral formation for six months.
Very busy at sea rewriting old geological notes. Has difficulties with writing.
FitzRoy has proposed joint account of the journey, combining CD’s journal with his own.
Looks forward with anxiety to Henslow’s reaction to the geological notes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
3 June 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223: 35
Summary:
Will call on Sir J. Herschel, then take short trip in the African desert.
Horrified at the publication of "the little book of extracts" from his letters to Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
18 July 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223: 36
Summary:
In five days of geologising on St Helena, he found that the shells on high land had been mistakenly identified as seashells. They are land shells, but of species no longer living.
Can think of nothing but the return to England and his family.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 37
Summary:
Beagle is again in Brazil because of need to check on "singular disagreements in the Longitudes".
Pleased by Sedgwick’s praise.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[9 Nov 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 49
Summary:
His fossil bones are unpacked and some are great treasures. He has some geology to do: R. I. Murchison has lent him a map and asked him to look at a part of the country he has been describing.
Their only protection against having Harriet Martineau as sister-in-law is that she works Erasmus too hard.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[7 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 50
Summary:
Dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’. They have agreed to go over his journal. Henry Holland thinks it not worth publishing alone because it goes over FitzRoy’s ground.
His impressions of Harriet Martineau: "She is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[19 Jan 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 142v
Summary:
Declines invitation to dine at Downing College because of influenza.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
27 Feb 1837
Source of text:
DAR 154: 51
Summary:
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[19 May – 16 June 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 52
Summary:
Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.
Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
[–] Wynne
Date:
[Feb–July 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 206: 42
Summary:
Questions on breeding and habits.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A1–2
Summary:
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 39
Summary:
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A5–6
Summary:
Thanks for ham and corrections in spelling. Gives account of his social activities in past week.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 53
Summary:
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[15 May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 38
Summary:
Recounts dinner at Erasmus’ house with Harriet Martineau and others, and a visit to Cambridge to stay with Henslow and meet old friends again.
Contributor:
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