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DCP-LETT-147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
15 [Nov 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 10 DAR/1/1/10)
Summary:

Sailing date fixed for end of month. Beagle is beautiful. Details of instructions and route. Hopes voyage will not exceed four years. Quarters very confined. Considers Jenyns did wisely in not coming. If CD were longer out of college and some years older he never could have endured it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-150

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 109
Summary:

Is sending plates for R. T. Lowe’s paper [Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 4 (1833): 1–70].

Adds advice on working the surd.

Agrees with CD that Beagle voyage would have been wrong for Jenyns, but assures him he (CD) is the right man. Warns CD against his "foible" of taking offence at rudeness or ungentlemanlike behaviour.

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