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From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec [1825]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 22
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Jan 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 18
Summary:

A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins’: Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Mar 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 25
Summary:

Writes of Papa’s disapproval of CD’s practice of picking and choosing only lectures he likes to attend and of his early return home.

News of Erasmus, who is visiting sick poor people in the neighbourhood. Other Shrewsbury news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20–31 Dec [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 70
Summary:

Family and Shropshire news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [– 3 Mar] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 95
Summary:

Chronicles the events of February, principally of the family and of a few friends: engagements, marriages, deaths, some visits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May [– 2 June] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 96
Summary:

News from Maer and Shrewsbury of family, friends, and reports of reactions to CD’s first letters.

Sedgwick suggests he look for fossils in gravel banks of rivers.

Fanny Owen is married to R. M. Biddulph. Reform Bill prospects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15[–18] Aug 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 97
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 & 18 Nov 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 98
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 & 6 Mar 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 99
Summary:

Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;

SD brings family news up to date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 & 31 July 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 100
Summary:

News of family and friends after skipping June letter: Osmaston and the Foxes, five weeks in London, the Langtons in Shropshire, Fanny Biddulph and daughter, R. W. Darwin, and Charles Hughes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 101
Summary:

Mainly news of the family and friends. Their joy at the abolition of slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12[–28] Feb 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 102
Summary:

Writes on CD’s 25th birthday.

Points out "errors in orthography" in his journal.

News of family and friends, visits, and other social events.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23] May 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 103
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24] Nov 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 104
Summary:

The Langtons will go to Madeira for the winter. E. A. Darwin and the Hensleigh Wedgwoods enjoyed a stay in Cambridge, where they saw Professors Whewell and Sedgwick. Colonel Leighton has died. The King has dismissed the Whig Ministry; Wellington is Premier, and the country is in a strange state.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1835
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser. 2): 18–20
Summary:

Met Capt. Harding who said FitzRoy was promoted to Post-Captain.

News of family and friends. Forthcoming marriages of Robert Wedgwood and Tom Eyton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1835
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser. 2): 24–5
Summary:

Some of CD’s letters were read at Geological Society in London. Professor Sedgwick says of CD, "doing admirably … collection above all praise … will have a great name among the Naturalists of Europe".

Erasmus has taken office of Clerk to a Government Commissioner. Other family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1836
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser. 2): 30–1
Summary:

CD’s 27th birthday. News of family and friends. A niece, Mary Susan Parker, born 31 January.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1837?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 226
Summary:

Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.

Advice on a medicine CD is taking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 24 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 25 (on display at Down House in 1991)
Summary:

Gives some information on Darwin family history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project