To Alexander Burns Usborne [c. 1–5 September 1835]
Summary
Memorandum of geological instructions to guide ABU during a voyage of [Constitucion] to survey the coast of Peru.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Burns Usborne |
Date: | [c. 1–5 Sept 1835] |
Classmark: | DAR 207: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-285 |
To Susan Darwin 3 [September] 1835
Summary
Living quietly on the ship and eating good food has been good for him. He longs for home. Peru is in a miserable state.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 3 [Sept] 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-286 |
From Catherine Darwin 30 October 1835
Summary
Erasmus has received CD’s journal and two boxes; six large boxes are at Plymouth. Had feared them lost in wreck of Challenger.
News of family and friends.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-287 |
From Susan Darwin 22 November 1835
Summary
Some of CD’s letters were read at Geological Society in London. Professor Sedgwick says of CD, "doing admirably … collection above all praise … will have a great name among the Naturalists of Europe".
Erasmus has taken office of Clerk to a Government Commissioner. Other family news.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-288 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 December 1835
Summary
At sea 25 days from Galapagos to Tahiti, where they stayed ten days. It was delightful. Then three weeks to New Zealand, where they will be for ten days.
Convinced of high merit of missionaries.
Dislikes Augustus Earle’s book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Dec 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-289 |
From James Busby to Alexander Berry 29 December 1835
Summary
Introduces CD to Alexander Berry of Sydney.
Author: | James Busby |
Addressee: | Alexander Berry |
Date: | 29 Dec 1835 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 315/51 Item 6, pp. 1–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-289F |
From R. W. Darwin to J. S. Henslow 28 December 1835
Summary
Thanks JSH for copies of "Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq." [privately printed for Cambridge Philosophical Society; Collected papers 1: 3–16].
The family is sensible how much CD owes to JSH, and RWD is highly gratified by CD’s success.
Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 28 Dec 1835 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 28 DAR/1/1/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-290 |
From Caroline Darwin 29 December [1835]
Summary
CD’s fame is spreading: she quotes Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16], and a passage in the Athenæum.
Adds news of family and friends.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec [1835] |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-291 |
letter | (28) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Darwin, Caroline | (3) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (3) |
Alison, R. E. | (2) |
Corfield, R. H. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Darwin, Caroline | (3) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (3) |
Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |
Darwin, S. E. | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |