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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-189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[12–13] Nov 1832
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46a)
Summary:

Sketches the Beagle’s travels – Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, cruise to the south and return – and what the future holds. Writes with nostalgia of England and says he sees no end to the voyage.

He enjoys and has been lucky principally in geology and among pelagic animals; has found remains of large extinct animals.

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