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DCP-LETT-1F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend
Date:
1 Jan 1822
Source of text:
DAR 271/1/1
Summary:

Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]

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DCP-LETT-1G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend
Date:
2 Jan 1822
Source of text:
DAR 271/1/1
Summary:

Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend
Date:
3 Jan 1822
Source of text:
DAR 271/1/1
Summary:

"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.

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DCP-LETT-1J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend
Date:
4 Jan 1822
Source of text:
DAR 271/1/1
Summary:

Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1K

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend
Date:
4 Jan 1822
Source of text:
DAR 271/1/1
Summary:

Caroline disapproves of his not washing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1M

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend
Date:
12 Jan 1822
Source of text:
DAR 271.1.1: 6v
Summary:

Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.

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DCP-LETT-16

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

DCP-LETT-20

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
6 Jan 1826
Source of text:
DAR 154: 28
Summary:

CD comments on lectures and lecturers at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-22

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A3–4
Summary:

Sends thanks to all for their letters.

News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.

CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".

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DCP-LETT-30

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
8 Apr [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 29
Summary:

CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.

Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.

Is running short of funds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-50

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Darwin family
Date:
3 Oct 1828
Source of text:
DAR 204: 34
Summary:

[Caroline Darwin on behalf of CD] submits a petition to Darwin family for £20 to purchase a new double-barrelled gun, CD’s present one having become dangerous.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-53

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1828
Source of text:
DAR 154: 66
Summary:

Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.

News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.

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