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From:
George Johnston
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 May 1832
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 212
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Brings CD up to date on family and many friends. Describes the wedding of Fanny Owen and R. M. Biddulph. Sedgwick called on return from Wales. W. D. Fox has been very ill.
Has been away from parish because of a three-month illness. Refers briefly to events in England since the Beagle sailed.
Sailing next day to Montevideo. He has taken many hitherto undescribed animals. Describes the glories of the Brazilian forest.
Mentions his concern over the Reform Bill.
Regrets leaving the tropics, despite interest in a land where Europeans have never been. They have experienced political turmoil at Montevideo. Natural history going well.
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
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News of family and friends.
Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.
Brief summary of the voyage so far. His delight in the Brazilian forest; his trip into the interior; the turbulence at Rio; has grown a beard.
Gives CD an "account of my life and adventures since we parted" and news of her family.
He is staying on the Isle of Wight because he has been unwell. He is thought to be in danger of contracting consumption, and the climate is beneficial. He is convalescent now, but will spend the winter there.
Offers to forward any natural history stores CD may want.
News of the Darwin, Wedgwood, and Owen families, including a report on Frances Wedgwood’s death.
Rejoices in what she hears of his voyage and his pleasures in it.
Writes of her new life, and of their relatives and friends.
Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree
and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].
Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.
During the past two months CD has been lucky with fossil bones, and he is also finding new specimens of living animals.
He describes an ostrich hunt.
Has received several letters from home.
He enjoys Buenos Aires and admires the señoritas. Tierra del Fuego is next.
Notes for CD on a river trip to Mercedes on the Rio Negro [Uruguay].
Family news.
Sends news of himself and CD’s friends. Discusses changes in England, the coming elections, Cambridge politics.
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