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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:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 93
Summary:

Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26[–31] Aug 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 117
Summary:

Gives CD an "account of my life and adventures since we parted" and news of her family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug & 28 Sept 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 107
Summary:

He is staying on the Isle of Wight because he has been unwell. He is thought to be in danger of contracting consumption, and the climate is beneficial. He is convalescent now, but will spend the winter there.

Offers to forward any natural history stores CD may want.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12[–18] Sept 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 73
Summary:

News of the Darwin, Wedgwood, and Owen families, including a report on Frances Wedgwood’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 [Sept] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 114
Summary:

Rejoices in what she hears of his voyage and his pleasures in it.

Writes of her new life, and of their relatives and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 86
Summary:

Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree

and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].

Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lawrence Hughes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1832
Source of text:
DAR 34.1: 14–15
Summary:

Notes for CD on a river trip to Mercedes on the Rio Negro [Uruguay].

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:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1[–4] Dec 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 112
Summary:

Sends news of himself and CD’s friends. Discusses changes in England, the coming elections, Cambridge politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 74
Summary:

Family news. Uncle Jos [Josiah Wedgwood II] has been returned to Parliament with a fine majority.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 21 Jan 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 111
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of two letters from CD and a box of specimens.

Mentions attendance at BAAS meeting and a gift to him of a small living near Oxford. Some political news.

Congratulates CD on the work he has done – the specimens are of great interest. Gives advice on packing, labelling, and future collecting and suggests that – as a precaution – CD send home a copy of his notes on the specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 121
Summary:

His health has improved but he continues "a good deal of an invalid" and is uncertain what the future holds for him.

His interest in entomology and ornithology continues; he has been studying the gulls on the Isle of Wight.

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:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar [1833]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 75
Summary:

Sends her love and family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 94
Summary:

Writes of the pleasure all feel in CD’s continued good health and joy in his voyage.

Tells of the banana tree he bought, which he sits under and thinks of CD "in similar shade".

CD’s financial accounts are correct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1–4 May 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 76
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 87
Summary:

She and Susan are in London, and she writes of people they have seen or had news of: Captain Harding, E. A. Darwin, Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood, Emma Wedgwood, the Langtons, Josiah Wedgwood and Aunt Bessie, Fanny Biddulph and child, and the Evanses of Portrane.

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:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 [Aug 1833]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 117
Summary:

Wishes CD well on his trip to General Juan Manuel Rosas. CD is to send word when he wants a boat; there is no hurry, for there is plenty of work for the sounders. He envies CD’s travels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project