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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
[10 Aug 1828]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

His idle life and the pleasures of Barmouth: "my reading [in mathematics] is a failure"; "Beettle hunting … is my proper sphere".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
[19 July 1831]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

He is "mad about Geology" and plans to ride through Wales in August with a few days at Barmouth.

Some humorous gossip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
[9 Sept 1831]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.3)
Summary:

Mentions letters from Peacock and Henslow; tells of offer of a position on surveying voyage, his initial refusal, and eventual acceptance. Describes FitzRoy and course of voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Thomas Whitley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 69
Summary:

Congratulates CD on Beagle appointment as an "opportunity … of studying all the natural sciences at once, after your own taste".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
23 [Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

Thanks CTW for his letter [125]. "I do not think I ever received a more kind letter than yours or one that gave me so much pleasure.— You ought to have in your mind, the prospect of leaving England for 3 or 4 years before you can understand how to enjoy such a letter from such a person as yourself—". Regarding the voyage, "all is finally settled, & I have sealed away about half a chance of life.— If one lived merely to see how long one could spin out life,—I should repent my choice.— As it is I do not.—"

Thanks CTW for four fungi which have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
15 Nov [1831]
Source of text:
T. H. W. Bower (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets that it will be impossible to visit Cambridge for some years. Reminisces about CW’s "classical Sunday evenings", the Glutton Club, and his friends.

"We spend about 2 years in S. America, the rest of time larking round the world."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
23 July 1834
Source of text:
National Library of Australia (MS 4260)
Summary:

Would welcome hearing Cambridge news. Impossible not to regret friends and pleasures in England, but

has much solid enjoyment and never-failing interest in geology. Tells of his first sight of a savage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Thomas Whitley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1835
Source of text:
DAR 204: 132
Summary:

Replies to CD’s letter [250], giving news of himself and mutual friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
24 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 41567: 248–50)
Summary:

Congratulates CW on his marriage. Waiting in London till Beagle arrives in Woolwich.

Describes recent visit to Henslow in Cambridge.

At a loss to arrange specimens and observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
[8 May 1838]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Treasures recollections of old friends but seldom sees any. Has turned "a complete scribbler".

His scientific activities.

No wife in sight so far.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
23 Nov [1838]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Announces his engagement.

Glad CW wondered at Glen Roy. "I saw nothing in my peregrinations to the Antipodes nearly so curious in physical geography."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
20 June [1863]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Recalls the long walks in Cambridge with the "expectant senior wrangler". Cannot accept invitation (related to meetings of the BAAS) because of continuing bad health, his own and that of his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project