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DCP-LETT-169

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
May–June [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.

The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
May 1832
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46)
Summary:

Writes of voyage and his work in natural history: geology, collecting insects (freshwater beetles and spiders at Botofogo Bay); life at sea, sublime views ashore.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-170

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.

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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.

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