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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10
Summary:

CD asks his father to consider the offer of the Beagle voyage once more. He encloses his list of RWD’s objections and Josiah Wedgwood’s responses [see 109]. Asks his father to give him a decided answer: if "no" he will never again mention the subject.

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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2):4–5
Summary:

JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.

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From:
George Peacock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 26 Aug 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13
Summary:

Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.

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