From Francis Beaufort to Robert FitzRoy 1 September [1831]
Sep 1st
My dear Sir
I believe my friend Mr Peacock of Triny College Cambe has succeeded in getting a “Savant” for you— A Mr Darwin grandson of the well known philosopher and poet—full of zeal and enterprize and having contemplated a voyage on his own account to S. America
Let me know how you like the idea that I may go or recede in time | F B
Summary
Believes he has found a "savant" for FitzRoy in CD, whom he describes as grandson of Erasmus Darwin and "full of zeal and enterprize".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-113
- From
- Francis Beaufort
- To
- Robert FitzRoy
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no. 3, p. 233)
- Physical description
- CC 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 113,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-113.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 1