To ? [after 1836?]
Summary
[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 1836?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13858 |
From C. D. Douglas 5 January 1836
Summary
Reports in detail on the 20 Feb 1835 earthquake and on volcanic activity into December of 1835. Encloses a letter sent to him describing the earthquake.
Author: | Charles D. Douglas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 39.1: 5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-292 |
To Phillip Parker King [21 January 1836]
Summary
CD informs PPK of his impending arrival at Dunheved, Penrith; news of his journey thus far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Phillip Parker King |
Date: | [21 Jan 1836] |
Classmark: | Bathurst District Historical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-293 |
To Susan Darwin 28 January 1836
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-294 |
To J. S. Henslow [28–9] January 1836
Summary
His joy at prospect of journey’s end in eight months’ time.
Observations on Australia.
Reports on his collecting in Galapagos – its flora and very curious birds; its instructive geology.
Tahiti and good work of missionaries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [28–9] Jan 1836 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 29 DAR/1/1/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-295 |
From Susan Darwin 12 February 1836
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 97(ser. 2): 30–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-297 |
To W. D. Fox 15 February 1836
Summary
Finds the voyage tedious at present.
Expects that the different scientific societies will be of the greatest use to his work in London when he returns home.
Gives some impressions of Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 15 Feb 1836 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-299 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 July 1836
Summary
Asks JSH to propose him for Geological Society. His meeting with Sir John Herschel and Andrew Smith at Cape of Good Hope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 July 1836 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 30 DAR/1/1/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-304 |
To Susan Darwin 4 August [1836]
Summary
Beagle is again in Brazil because of need to check on "singular disagreements in the Longitudes".
Pleased by Sedgwick’s praise.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 223: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-306 |
To Josiah Wedgwood II [5 October 1836]
Summary
Happily home, he sends thanks to his "first Lord of the Admiralty". Will visit Maer in two or three weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, II |
Date: | [5 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-307 |
From William Owen Sr 5 October [1836]
Author: | William Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-309 |
To Robert FitzRoy 6 October [1836]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 6 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-310 |
To J. S. Henslow 6 October [1836]
Summary
His joy at being home. Anxious to see JSH for advice on his geological specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 6 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 31 DAR/1/1/31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-311 |
From Robert FitzRoy [19–]20 October [1836]
Summary
Sends news of his movements since Beagle put in at Falmouth. His charts are safe and already being engraved.
Announces his engagement.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19–]20 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-312 |
To Charles Whitley 24 October [1836]
Summary
Congratulates CW on his marriage. Waiting in London till Beagle arrives in Woolwich.
Describes recent visit to Henslow in Cambridge.
At a loss to arrange specimens and observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 24 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 41567: 248–50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-314 |
To J. S. Henslow [30–1 October 1836]
Summary
CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [30–1 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 32 DAR/1/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-317 |
To J. S. Henslow [1 November 1836]
Summary
Alerts JSH to boxes of specimens and letter of 30 Oct on the way by wagon.
Thomas Bell has expressed interest in CD’s Crustacea and reptiles.
CD’s ignorance about his botanical specimens embarrasses him.
Asks whether JSH is disappointed with Galapagos plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [1 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 33 DAR/1/1/33) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-318 |
To W. D. Fox 6 November [1836]
Summary
All his affairs are most prosperous. Has found many who will undertake description of animals; he will work at the geology. Lyell has been most friendly and kind.
CD has been proposed to the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Nov [1836] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-319 |
To Charles Wilkes [7 November 1836]
Summary
Arranges to meet CW for conversation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Wilkes |
Date: | [7 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-320 |
From J. M. Herbert [19 November 1836]
Summary
Welcomes CD; has tried to find him. May see him in Cambridge. Reminisces about CD’s musical taste and memory. Describes Charles Whitley’s wedding and wife. Mentions friends.
Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-323 |
letter | (41) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (3) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Mostyn Owen, William | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Darwin, Caroline | (5) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Darwin, Catherine | (4) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Langton, Catherine | (4) |
Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Carlisle, Anthony | (2) |
Mostyn Owen, William | (2) |
Caius College | (1) |
Douglas, C. D. | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
King, P. P. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Royal College of Surgeons of England | (1) |
South African Christian Recorder | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, II | (1) |
Wedgwood, Sarah | (1) |
Whitley, C. T. | (1) |
Wilkes, Charles | (1) |