From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1836
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser. 2): 32–3
Summary:
News of friends and family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
News of friends and family.
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
Expresses her pleasure at CD’s engagement.