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DCP-LETT-102

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

Has been learning to use a clinometer.

Has investigated passage and fares for Canaries trip.

Rereading Humboldt.

Asks JSH to thank Jenyns for present of Diptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
30 [Aug 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 2 DAR/1/1/2)
Summary:

Feels he should decline Beagle voyage offer because of his father’s objections, which he lists. Would otherwise have taken all risks.

[Geological] trip with Adam Sedgwick a success.

Grieved at Marmaduke Ramsay’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-114

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[2 Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 3 DAR/1/1/3)
Summary:

Has just arrived in Cambridge; his father has changed his mind. Asks to see JSH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[5 Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 4 DAR/1/1/4)
Summary:

Has met FitzRoy, who has now offered him the post of naturalist on board the Beagle. Other details about the voyage arrangements – mess, CD’s status, route, books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-123

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
9 [Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 5 DAR/1/1/5)
Summary:

All is settled – nothing can now alter CD’s determination. Details of plan and arrangements. Beaufort believes CD’s collections should be presented to some public body. CD thinks a large central collection best for natural history. Is busy getting advice and information from Yarrell and Capt. P. P. King for the voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 [Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 6 DAR/1/1/6)
Summary:

Plans to come to Cambridge to discuss Beagle voyage. Only difficulty is disposal of his collections. South Sea Islands now more probable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 [Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 7 DAR/1/1/7)
Summary:

Has collected [Phalli] in Shropshire and compared them with Barmouth species. Is convinced they are different.

Asks JSH for introductions to R. T. Lowe and Andrew Smith.

Has been given another week’s respite by FitzRoy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 or 11] Oct 1831
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 8 DAR/1/1/8)
Summary:

Asks JSH to take charge of his consignments of specimens from the voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
30 [Oct 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 9 DAR/1/1/9)
Summary:

Hopes to be able to help Cambridge Philosophical Society with his collections, but thinks most will have to go to British Museum.

Describes Beagle quarters, the surgeon [Robert McCormick, M.D.], and officers.

Asks JSH’s advice on studying mathematics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Dec [1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 11 DAR/1/1/11)
Summary:

Confusion on board the Beagle at definite prospect of sailing. Gives directions for sending mail to Montevideo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 May & 16 June 1832
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 12 DAR/1/1/12)
Summary:

His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[23 July –] 15 Aug [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13)
Summary:

Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14)
Summary:

A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-198

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
23 Jan [1833]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 15 DAR/1/1/15)
Summary:

EAD will forward a book and letter to CD; thanks JSH for sending CD’s letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-199

From:
Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
1 Feb 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16)
Summary:

Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Apr 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 17 DAR/1/1/17)
Summary:

Description of the months at Tierra del Fuego. His first sight of the primitive Fuegians. Geological and zoological observations and specimens.

The Falklands: geological and zoological observations.

Convinced the [Megatherium] sent to Royal College of Physicians [by Woodbine Parish] belongs to same formation as bones he sent home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 July 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 18 DAR/1/1/18)
Summary:

Fears JSH will think his collections scanty. Makes it a constant rule to prefer obscure and diminutive tribes of animals.

Now has a servant whom he has taught to skin birds, etc.

Lists four barrels of specimens he is sending.

Gives future route. He looks forward to the western coast of South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[20–7] Sept 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19)
Summary:

Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
12 Nov 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 20 DAR/1/1/20)
Summary:

Is sending a cargo of specimens – birds’ skins, small quadrupeds, and fossil bones.

Describes his overland trip from Rio Negro to Buenos Aires and his expedition to Santa Fé.

Asks for mineralogical works to help him with the volcanic rocks of the west coast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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