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DCP-LETT-268

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.

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DCP-LETT-275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1835
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

His trip across the Andes and back was his most successful excursion: can clearly demonstate that the western part of the double line of mountains is much older, with fossil shells at 12000ft; the eastern line may be as modern as the Patagonian plains. If proved, this is an important fact in the theory of the formation of the world. Has found petrified trees.

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DCP-LETT-286

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
3 [Sept] 1835
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

Living quietly on the ship and eating good food has been good for him. He longs for home. Peru is in a miserable state.

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DCP-LETT-288

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.

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