From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[Sept 1831 – May 1861]
Source of text:
North East Wales Archives, Ruthin (DD/PH/115)
Summary:
Valediction only.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Valediction only.
CD accepts going with Capt. FitzRoy. Explains earlier refusal as owing to his father’s disapproval.
Believes he has found a "savant" for FitzRoy in CD, whom he describes as grandson of Erasmus Darwin and "full of zeal and enterprize".
RWD had made up his mind to give up his objection to the Beagle voyage if JW did not take the same view. If Charles continues to want to go after further inquiry, will give him every assistance.