skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
1831::08::31 in date disabled_by_default
1831::08::31 in date disabled_by_default
2 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From Josiah Wedgwood II to R. W. Darwin   31 August 1831

thumbnail

Summary

States his views on each of RWD’s objections to the Beagle venture. JW’s overall position is favourable to CD’s acceptance of the offer.

Author:  Josiah Wedgwood, II
Addressee:  Robert Waring Darwin
Date:  31 Aug 1831
Classmark:  DAR 97(ser.2): 6–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-109

To R. W. Darwin   31 August [1831]

thumbnail

Summary

CD asks his father to consider the offer of the Beagle voyage once more. He encloses his list of RWD’s objections and Josiah Wedgwood’s responses [see 109]. Asks his father to give him a decided answer: if "no" he will never again mention the subject.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Waring Darwin
Date:  31 Aug [1831]
Classmark:  DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-110
letter