From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
[23 Oct 1825]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 68
Summary:
First days in Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10
Summary:
CD asks his father to consider the offer of the Beagle voyage once more. He encloses his list of RWD’s objections and Josiah Wedgwood’s responses [see 109]. Asks his father to give him a decided answer: if "no" he will never again mention the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2): 6–8
Summary:
States his views on each of RWD’s objections to the Beagle venture. JW’s overall position is favourable to CD’s acceptance of the offer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
1 Sept 1831
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1832
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:
Sends a short résumé of his trip on the chance that it will arrive in England earlier than longer letter [158] which he hopes to send by surer means.
He is "incessantly occupied by new and most interesting animals" and thinks he will be able to do some original work in natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
8 & 26 Feb & 1 Mar [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 8
Summary:
Writes with great happiness about the first part of the voyage, after his misery from seasickness passed. He finds himself well prepared, the ship quiet, comfortable, and compact; he has already a "rich harvest" and finds the natural history (especially geology) exceedingly interesting. The tropics are full of great beauty.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
1 Feb 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16)
Summary:
Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.
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:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 Dec 1835
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 28 DAR/1/1/28)
Summary:
Thanks JSH for copies of "Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq." [privately printed for Cambridge Philosophical Society; Collected papers 1: 3–16].
The family is sensible how much CD owes to JSH, and RWD is highly gratified by CD’s success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
R. W. Darwin
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 December 1835
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
13 Nov 1838
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:
RWD’s happiness that Emma has accepted CD’s proposal of marriage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1838
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 198)
Summary:
JW’s satisfaction in bestowing Emma on CD.
[A note from Emma on cover thanks RWD for the way the family have received her.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Abberley; Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1841
Source of text:
DAR 162: 78
Summary:
The family gardener reports on seeds he has gathered. RWD transmits the letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project