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From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 & 6 Mar 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 99
Summary:

Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;

SD brings family news up to date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 & 31 July 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 100
Summary:

News of family and friends after skipping June letter: Osmaston and the Foxes, five weeks in London, the Langtons in Shropshire, Fanny Biddulph and daughter, R. W. Darwin, and Charles Hughes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 101
Summary:

Mainly news of the family and friends. Their joy at the abolition of slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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