From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
[23 Oct 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 68
Summary:
First days in Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1832
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
Sends a short résumé of his trip on the chance that it will arrive in England earlier than longer letter [158] which he hopes to send by surer means.
He is "incessantly occupied by new and most interesting animals" and thinks he will be able to do some original work in natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
8 & 26 Feb & 1 Mar [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 8
Summary:
Writes with great happiness about the first part of the voyage, after his misery from seasickness passed. He finds himself well prepared, the ship quiet, comfortable, and compact; he has already a "rich harvest" and finds the natural history (especially geology) exceedingly interesting. The tropics are full of great beauty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1838
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 198)
Summary:
JW’s satisfaction in bestowing Emma on CD.
[A note from Emma on cover thanks RWD for the way the family have received her.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project