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DCP-LETT-108

From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
30–1 Aug 1831
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:

CD has had an offer to go on a voyage of discovery for two years. RWD objects strongly, but will let CD make his case and if JW agrees with CD, RWD will change his position. In a postscript RWD adds, "Charles has quite given up … the voyage."

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0510

From:
Charles Bell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 August 1831
Source of text:
New York Academy of Medicine MS 435
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday 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.

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