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DCP-LETT-233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
3 Dec [1833]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 80
Summary:

Has had to draw bills totalling £217 in seven months.

Is glad the Captain has decided to winter in Tierra del Fuego, because this will facilitate "glorious excursions" into the Andes.

Has obtained fragments of fossil bones and part of a Megatherium head.

Their long delay occurred because the charts were not complete for sending home.

CD is now on shore because of seasickness.

The family may not hear from him for a year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3975

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.9.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sailing to Cape Town, JH reports sighting an English ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE497

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Dec 1833
Source of text:
77, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE17

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
14 Dec 1833
Source of text:
MSB1 / 239, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE567

From:
Macvey Napier
To:
William Somerville
Date:
22 Dec 1833
Source of text:
MSN 1 / 223, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE434

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
23 Dec 1833
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 139, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel6877

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 December 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.180
Summary:

Thanks for his paper on nebulae. Scarlet fever has been very prevalent this season. R.S.L. in financial straits. Paper on John Flamsteed has caused friction between James Ivory and the R.A.S. Government has promised financial aid to Edinburgh Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-234

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec [1833] & 3 Jan 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 79
Summary:

News of family and friends. Hensleigh Wedgwood’s scruples about swearing oaths.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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