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DCP-LETT-110

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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DCP-LETT-104

From:
George Peacock
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[6 or 13] Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97: B1–3
Summary:

GP has been asked to recommend a naturalist to sail with Capt. Robert FitzRoy to Tierra del Fuego and the South Sea Islands. If Leonard Jenyns is not available, whom would JSH recommend?

P.S. Urges JHS not to lose this opportunity to have collections made for "our museum".

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DCP-LETT-105

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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DCP-LETT-106

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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DCP-LETT-109

From:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2): 6–8
Summary:

States his views on each of RWD’s objections to the Beagle venture. JW’s overall position is favourable to CD’s acceptance of the offer.

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