From Susan Darwin 3–6 March 1833
Summary
Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;
SD brings family news up to date.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 & 6 Mar 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-200 |
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- … From Susan Darwin 3–6 March 1833 …
- … DAR 204: 99 Susan Elizabeth Darwin Shrewsbury 3 & 6 Mar 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to Catherine Darwin, 22 May – 14 July 1833 ). Frances Julia Wedgwood. Church reform, which …
- … slave trade in the colonies in 1806. In August 1833 a law emancipating the slaves in the …
- … Shrewsbury March 3 d . 1833. Catherine who wrote last will have told you my very dear …
From Susan Darwin 15 October 1833
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Mainly news of the family and friends. Their joy at the abolition of slavery.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-219 |
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- … From Susan Darwin 15 October 1833 …
- … DAR 204: 101 Susan Elizabeth Darwin Shrewsbury 15 Oct 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … player represented by an exposed “hand” ’ ( OED ). Martineau 1833 . The bill abolishing …
- … in the colonies became law on 28 August 1833. A system of apprenticeship for seven years, …
- … Shrewsbury Oct 15 th . | 1833. My dear Charles. On October the 11 th . we got your very …
From Susan Darwin 22–31 July 1833
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News of family and friends after skipping June letter: Osmaston and the Foxes, five weeks in London, the Langtons in Shropshire, Fanny Biddulph and daughter, R. W. Darwin, and Charles Hughes.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 & 31 July 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-211 |
From Susan Darwin [23] May 1834
Summary
News of family and friends.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] May 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-246 |
From Susan Darwin 12–18 November 1832
Summary
Family news.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 & 18 Nov 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-191 |
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- … specimens at Down House, on a page headed ‘1833 June Maldonado’, reads: ‘1288. Mus, in …
From Susan Darwin 22 November 1835
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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 |
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- … of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 210–12, Collected papers 1: 16–19). The …
From Susan Darwin 12 February [– 3 March] 1832
Summary
Chronicles the events of February, principally of the family and of a few friends: engagements, marriages, deaths, some visits.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [– 3 Mar] 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-160 |
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- … see letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October 1833 ). The House of Commons passed the Reform …
From R. W. Darwin and the Misses Darwin to J. S. Henslow 1 February 1833
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Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-199 |
| Darwin, S. E. | |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
That monstrous stain: To J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833
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Darwin did not consider himself to be a particularly good writer, but many of his letters contain not just a wealth of information, but also beautifully expressed descriptions and impressions that would be the envy of any essayist or novelist. Such is the…
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- … Abolition Act (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) was passed in August 1833 and came into force a year later. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( Correspondence vol. 1): …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … electric explosion ( from Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 ) During the voyage it was …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Key letters: Letter to J. S. Henslow, 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite secondary sources (DAR 33: 254 …
- … 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … signatures of the members . . . who met at Cambridge, June 1833. With a report of the proceedings . …
- … Report of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 …
- … de M. Gay. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October 1833). Darwin Library–CUL ††. …
- … . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 369–93. (DAR 35.2: 396). …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. (DAR 37.2: 797). …
- … ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). Maskelyne, Nevil. Tables …
- … of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar . . . 2 vols. London, 1833. ( Red notebook , p. 64). …
- … (Vols. 3–7 inscribed ‘Chas. Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, …
- … Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). Ulloa, A. de. See Juan, G. and …
- … London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147–236. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck 1833].— —Have read it. Ogleby Temminck. …
- … of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : French [? Annales de la …
- … Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in …
- … Darby’s Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil …
- … Lives of Kepler & Galileo. Drinkwater [J. E. Drinkwater] 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French …
- … Boisduval is author of Fauna of Madagascar [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de …
- … countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du …
- … 5 s 1834–43 1. Humming Birds, Vol. 1 [Jardine 1833]. 3. Humming Birds, Vol 2 …
- … 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes lives [Drinkwater 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of …
- … [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] Wilkinson’s Egyptian remains [?J. G. …
- … 10 th Surville-Marion [Crozet 1783]. Fanning [Fanning 1833], Dixon [G. Dixon ed. 1789]. Voyages …
- … other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed …
- … (for second time) Whewell’s Bridgewater Treatise [Whewell 1833] March 1 st . Philosoph. …
- … —— 28 th Glöger Abanden der Vogel [Glöger 1833].— Dec r . 1 Meyens Geography of Plants …
- … Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou ]. Vols for 1833, 1837, 1838, 1842, 43, 44—not all …
- … ed. 1837], notes by W. Herbert, Rennie [J. Rennie] ed. 1833]. 6. H. Miller First Impressions …
- … very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor —— 20 th Thiers …
- … la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux ] Tom VI. & VII. 1833–1835 118 22 d . Bulletin …
- … Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ] Tom. I (lost). II 1833. III 1834. & IV 1835: …
- … 22] 1858 Hewitsons Oology [Hewitson [1833–42].— Nov. 12. Yarrell’s …
- … 18 The entries from ‘Volneys’ to [Temminck 1833] on page [5v.] are taken from the inside back …
- … Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert White’s Natural History …
- … ed. (1844) in Darwin Library.] 119: 8a ——. 1833. The hand. Its mechanism and vital …
- … of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of …
- … *119: 20v. Boisduval de Chauffour, Jean Alphonse. 1833. Faune entomologique de …
- … 16b [Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune, John Elliot]. 1833. Lives of eminent persons, …
- … and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 1833, 1834 . London. 119: 3a …
- … countries . Hereford. 119: 1a Fanning, Edmund. 1833. Voyages round the world: with …
- … Mrs. P. Sinnett. London. 119: 17b Finch, John. 1833. Travels in the United States of …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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George Keen
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George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…
Adam Sedgwick
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One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…
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- … One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., 23 May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. …
Edward Lumb
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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … 196 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, C. R., 15 & 21 Jan [1833] Henslow acknowledges receipt of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … shoot and skin birds, Darwin employed him as his servant in 1833. Covington accompanied Darwin on …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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- … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
Inland expeditions
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Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe
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- … Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe …
Titus Coan
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In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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- … Coan had landed at Gregory Bay (now in Chile) on 14 November 1833, and left again on 25 January 1834 …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He …
