To J. S. Henslow 15 [November 1831]
Summary
Sailing date fixed for end of month. Beagle is beautiful. Details of instructions and route. Hopes voyage will not exceed four years. Quarters very confined. Considers Jenyns did wisely in not coming. If CD were longer out of college and some years older he never could have endured it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 15 [Nov 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 10 DAR/1/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-147 |
To Charles Whitley 15 November [1831]
Summary
Regrets that it will be impossible to visit Cambridge for some years. Reminisces about CW’s "classical Sunday evenings", the Glutton Club, and his friends.
"We spend about 2 years in S. America, the rest of time larking round the world."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1831] |
| Classmark: | T. H. W. Bower (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-148 |
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4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…
