Submitted by PeterPavement on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:51
Letters from the Wedgwood residence, including Darwin persuading his father to let him go on the voyage with the help of his uncle Josiah.
Submitted by PeterPavement on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:51
Letters from the Wedgwood residence, including Darwin persuading his father to let him go on the voyage with the help of his uncle Josiah.
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.
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.
Sends congratulations and good wishes; feels the Wedgwoods bear much responsibility, since he would not have accepted the Beagle appointment had he not been at Maer "that 1st. of September".
Describes the gathering at Maer and the events culminating in Charlotte Wedgwood’s marriage to Charles Langton.
News from Maer and Shrewsbury of family, friends, and reports of reactions to CD’s first letters.
Sedgwick suggests he look for fossils in gravel banks of rivers.
Fanny Owen is married to R. M. Biddulph. Reform Bill prospects.
Rejoices in what she hears of his voyage and his pleasures in it.
Writes of her new life, and of their relatives and friends.
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