To W. D. Fox 1 August [1831]
Summary
Will send his insects and two or three from Henslow.
The Canary scheme takes place next June.
Is grieved WDF thinks him capable of telling falsehoods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-103 |
From George Peacock to J. S. Henslow [6 or 13 August 1831]
Summary
GP has been asked to recommend a naturalist to sail with Capt. Robert FitzRoy to Tierra del Fuego and the South Sea Islands. If Leonard Jenyns is not available, whom would JSH recommend?
P.S. Urges JHS not to lose this opportunity to have collections made for "our museum".
| Author: | George Peacock |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [6 or 13] Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: B1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-104 |
From J. S. Henslow 24 August 1831
Summary
JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97(ser.2):4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-105 |
From George Peacock [c. 26 August 1831]
Summary
Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.
| Author: | George Peacock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Aug 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-106 |
To J. S. Henslow 30 [August 1831]
Summary
Feels he should decline Beagle voyage offer because of his father’s objections, which he lists. Would otherwise have taken all risks.
[Geological] trip with Adam Sedgwick a success.
Grieved at Marmaduke Ramsay’s death.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 30 [Aug 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 2 DAR/1/1/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-107 |
From R. W. Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood II 30–1 August 1831
Summary
CD has had an offer to go on a voyage of discovery for two years. RWD objects strongly, but will let CD make his case and if JW agrees with CD, RWD will change his position. In a postscript RWD adds, "Charles has quite given up … the voyage."
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Date: | 30–1 Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-108 |
From Josiah Wedgwood II to R. W. Darwin 31 August 1831
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]
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Peacock, George | (2) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, II | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, II | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Peacock, George | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, II | (2) |
