From:
Frederick Andrew Eck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Oct 1834]
Source of text:
DAR 35: 232
Summary:
Heights of various places in Chile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Heights of various places in Chile.
CD is unwell.
FitzRoy has dispatched two casks of bones and stones, a box with "very valuable specimens", and a large jar.
Became ill two weeks before on his return from Santiago after an interesting trip and some geology – though snow kept him out of the Andes. FitzRoy has had to sell the schooner; he was discouraged by the Admiralty, and the expense was too much for him to bear personally.
Family and local news. Tom Eyton will marry. Tells of the great fire of the Houses of Parliament.