From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 1836?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626)
Summary:
[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles D. Douglas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1836
Source of text:
DAR 39.1: 5–6
Summary:
Reports in detail on the 20 Feb 1835 earthquake and on volcanic activity into December of 1835. Encloses a letter sent to him describing the earthquake.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Phillip Parker King
Date:
[21 Jan 1836]
Source of text:
Bathurst District Historical Society
Summary:
CD informs PPK of his impending arrival at Dunheved, Penrith; news of his journey thus far.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[28–9] Jan 1836
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 29 DAR/1/1/29)
Summary:
His joy at prospect of journey’s end in eight months’ time.
Observations on Australia.
Reports on his collecting in Galapagos – its flora and very curious birds; its instructive geology.
Tahiti and good work of missionaries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1836
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser. 2): 30–1
Summary:
CD’s 27th birthday. News of family and friends. A niece, Mary Susan Parker, born 31 January.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
15 Feb 1836
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 48)
Summary:
Finds the voyage tedious at present.
Expects that the different scientific societies will be of the greatest use to his work in London when he returns home.
Gives some impressions of Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
9 July 1836
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 30 DAR/1/1/30)
Summary:
Asks JSH to propose him for Geological Society. His meeting with Sir John Herschel and Andrew Smith at Cape of Good Hope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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:
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Nov 1836]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 33 DAR/1/1/33)
Summary:
Alerts JSH to boxes of specimens and letter of 30 Oct on the way by wagon.
Thomas Bell has expressed interest in CD’s Crustacea and reptiles.
CD’s ignorance about his botanical specimens embarrasses him.
Asks whether JSH is disappointed with Galapagos plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 Nov [1836]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 49)
Summary:
All his affairs are most prosperous. Has found many who will undertake description of animals; he will work at the geology. Lyell has been most friendly and kind.
CD has been proposed to the Geological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wilkes
Date:
[7 Nov 1836]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.6)
Summary:
Arranges to meet CW for conversation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 137
Summary:
Welcomes CD; has tried to find him. May see him in Cambridge. Reminisces about CD’s musical taste and memory. Describes Charles Whitley’s wedding and wife. Mentions friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, Caroline6
- Wedgwood, Caroline6
- Henslow, J. S.5
- Darwin, Catherine4
- FitzRoy, Robert4
- Langton, Catherine4
- Darwin, S. E.3
- Fox, W. D.3
- Carlisle, Anthony2
- Mostyn Owen, William2
- Caius College1
- Douglas, C. D.1
- Herbert, J. M.1
- King, P. P.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Owen, Richard1
- Royal College of Surgeons of England1
- South African Christian Recorder1
- Unidentified1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, II1
- Wedgwood, Sarah1
- Whitley, C. T.1
- Wilkes, Charles1