Happily home, he sends thanks to his "first Lord of the Admiralty". Will visit Maer in two or three weeks.

CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.

Welcomes CD home; urges him to come to Woodhouse.

CD describes his happy home-coming. Finds his family and Shrewsbury unchanged.

Sends news of his movements since Beagle put in at Falmouth. His charts are safe and already being engraved.

Announces his engagement.

Last four days have been spent calling on naturalists. Geologists have been kind, but zoologists seem to think a number of undescribed creatures a nuisance.

Will send his belongings to Cambridge, but eventually his quarters must be London.

FitzRoy is to be married.