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:
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:
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:
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:
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