From Fanny Owen [January 1828]
Summary
Surprised to hear from Sarah [Owen] that CD has decided to become a D.D., not an M.D.
She has been to a ball or a party almost every night.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-37 |
From Fanny Owen [late January 1828]
Summary
Tells him the Woodhouse family will set forth for return home.
Reports on activities in Brighton.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Jan 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-38 |
From Sarah Owen 18 February [1828]
Summary
Writes of the last part of their lively stay at Brighton and three days in London.
None of CD’s sisters can come to enliven the "truly awful" tranquillity at the Forest [Woodhouse].
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-39 |
From Fanny Owen [9 March 1828]
Summary
Went recently to Tommy Hunt’s festivities before Lloyd Kenyon joined his regiment.
Hopes Caroline and Catherine Darwin will visit in a week.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-40 |
From Sarah Owen 30 March [1828]
Summary
Caroline and Catherine Darwin were at the Forest a few days last week and Susan Darwin comes the next day. Mentions other relatives, friends, and acquaintances.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-41 |
To W. D. Fox 12 [June 1828]
Summary
Account of insects he has collected, with figures drawn by sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 [June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-42 |
To W. D. Fox [30 June 1828]
Summary
Mainly concerned with entomological specimens CD has recently captured. Three figures of beetles are included.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [30 June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-43 |
From Fanny Owen [July? 1828]
Summary
Is eager to know all that goes on at the Forest [Woodhouse], Bliss Castle [Maer], and Darwin Hall [The Mount].
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July? 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-44 |
To W. D. Fox [29 July 1828]
Summary
CD on a reading party at Barmouth, Wales;
difficulty with mathematics.
Reports on his entomological collecting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 July 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-45 |
To C. T. Whitley [10 August 1828]
Summary
His idle life and the pleasures of Barmouth: "my reading [in mathematics] is a failure"; "Beettle hunting … is my proper sphere".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Date: | [10 Aug 1828] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-45A |
To W. D. Fox [19 August 1828]
Summary
Accepts invitation to a Music Meeting at Osmaston, Derbyshire.
Entomological news and queries.
Has taken up angling.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [19 Aug 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-46 |
To John Maurice Herbert [13 September 1828]
Summary
Asks JMH to collect some insects at Barmouth.
Reports on his shooting luck.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | [13 Sept 1828] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-47 |
To W. D. Fox [October 1828]
Summary
Sends some stuffed birds for "Osmaston Museum" and some insects.
Home having cloyed, plans to go to Woodhouse to visit the Owens and the black-eyed houris [Sarah and Fanny] there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-48 |
To J. M. Herbert [3 October 1828]
Summary
CD obliged for JMH’s labours in "the science". He reports having spent a pleasant month. Entomological pursuits succeeded.
Looks forward to receiving beetles and butterflies from JMH when he passes through Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | [3 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-49 |
To the Darwin Family 3 October 1828
Summary
[Caroline Darwin on behalf of CD] submits a petition to Darwin family for £20 to purchase a new double-barrelled gun, CD’s present one having become dangerous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Darwin family |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1828 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-50 |
From Fanny Owen [26 October 1828]
Summary
Woodhouse news, including going to a play.
She has been spending much time painting.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-51 |
To W. D. Fox [29 October 1828]
Summary
Has met Frederick William Hope, the entomologist; relates F. W. Hope’s praise of CD’s collection and his generous offer of assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-52 |
To E. A. Darwin 21 December 1828
Summary
Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.
News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1828 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-53 |
To W. D. Fox [24 December 1828]
Summary
CD is collecting entomological specimens;
extols the charms of Fanny Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [24 Dec 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-54 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (5) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (5) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (2) |
| Darwin family | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (5) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (5) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
Matches: 14 hits
- … Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
- … creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR …
- … Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. Instead, the letter was folded and held shut with …
- … her older sister, Sarah, were visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties …
- … awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
- … ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
- … mania go on, are you as constant as ever ?’ In this letter, the postilion and housemaid are …
- … ‘ la belle Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR …
- … Darwin that she would remember him. Responding to a recent letter he had written in a ‘ Blue …
- … there was not to be an end of them!! In her last letter before the Beagle sailed, she …
- … Little wonder that Darwin felt bereft when he learned in a letter from his sister Catherine, …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), in which Fanny …
- … so very engaging and delightful about her.— ’ In the letter accompanying his book in 1872, Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 30 hits
- … has pub. German pamphlet on crossing oats &c [Wiegmann 1828] Horticultural Transact 15 …
- … [Winch 1819] M. Girou de Buzareingues on generation. 1828 [Girou de Buzareingues 1828a]. …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 30 [Jesse 1838] Salmonia— Sir. H Davy [H. Davy 1828] 31 An analysis of …
- … [J. L. Scott 1841] Lockarts Life of Burns [Lockhart 1828] Seguir. Russian Expedition …
- … de la fôret de Bialowcka. Varsovie 1826 [Brincken 1828] quoted by Weissenborn on Aurochs …
- … 1839]— Meckel’s Anatomy. French Translat. [Meckel 1828–38] in Royal Soc D r . Holland says …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Napiers Hist. of Peninsular War [W. F. P. Napier 1828–40] Campbell’s Chief Justices [J. …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [Coleridge 1835]. Campbell’s Poems [T. Campbell 1828]. Some of Shellys Poems [Shelley …
- … Marked—— 10 th Veterinary [ Veterinarian ] 1828 Vol 1 to end of 1841.— extracted …
- … 1841] 8 th . Lockart life of Burns [Lockhart 1828] 16 L d Dudley’s Letters …
- … /ducks 76 Sept. 14 th . Salmonia [H. Davy 1828] & some vols: of Annals of Nat Hist [ …
- … 1844 Wiegman on Hybrids—German— [Wiegmann 1828] March 24 th Martins Voyage to St …
- … —— Failed in reading Niebuhr’s Rome [Niebuhr 1828–42] [DAR 119: 14a] 1844 …
- … 1843] —— Crawfords Embassy to Siam [Crawfurd 1828] May. Blanco White. Auto-biography …
- … 1779] —— 30. Heber’s Indian Journal [Heber 1828] —— 31 Kitto on Deafness [Kitto 1845] …
- … Mar 18 th Hofacker ueber den Eigenschaften [Hofacker 1828] —— 20 th Hilaire Augt St. …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
- … art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 29 hits
- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
- … 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … Manuel d’ornithologie. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (DAR 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * …
- … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
- … of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
- … and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
- … account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
- … the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … researches and illustrations. Vol. 1, Pt 1. Cork, 1828–30. (DAR 30.2: 133v.). Turnbull, …
- … 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … of the world . . . Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …
- … of the voyages . . . London, 1773. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop …
- … of Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to Catherine Darwin, 5 July …
John Maurice Herbert
Summary
John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
Matches: 3 hits
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
Matches: 5 hits
- … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
- … not to continue the study of medicine, and in January 1828 he went up to Cambridge to read for a …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
- … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Matches: 23 hits
- … professions. As a young man, Charles went up to Cambridge in 1828 with the aim of completing the …
- … & I can see it even through a grove of Palms.—’ (letter to Caroline Darwin, 25–6 April [1832] …
- … wrote to the contrary: ‘I am sorry to see in your last letter that you still look forward to the …
- … near the British Museum or some other learned place’ (letter from E. A. Darwin, 18 August [1832] …
- … it is a sort of scene I never ought to think about—’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [9–12 August] 1835 ). …
- … However, what remains is cordial; in the first extant letter of the correspondence, Darwin wrote to …
- … (a local charity), which he administered from 1848 to 1869 (letter to J. B. Innes, [8 May 1848] …
- … he would make an excellent Guardian [of the Poor Fund]’ (letter to J. W. Lubbock, 28 March [1854] …
- … club the use of his own lawn for its meetings (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. Henslow, 17 January …
- … the family’s dog, Quiz, when he moved away from Down (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 December [1861] ) …
- … was considered to be a cross between a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December …
- … ancestor. Please think of my request favourably—’ (letter from J. B. Innes, 26 May 1871 ). Indeed …
- … and leaves Moses to take care of himself. Letter from J. B. Innes, 1 December 1878 …
- … take care of the financial complications he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June …
- … seemed to have made off with the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So …
- … by Horsman relating to the Down school and organ funds (letter to J. B. Innes, 13 January 1871 ). …
- … Dissenters’ chapel, rather than the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). …
- … in the Parish, but preaches, I hear, very dull sermons’ (letter to J. B. Innes, 18 January [1871] …
- … capital testimonials to his wife’s qualifications’ (letter from J. B. Innes, 5 June 1871 ). …
- … support, and presented their answer to the School Committee (letter to Down School Board, [after …
- … of letters to both men, vainly seeking to reconcile them (letter from John Lubbock, 5 April [1875] …
- … During the reign of Ffinden, there is an interesting letter from Darwin to the evangelist J. W. C. …
- … do not know that there is a drunkard left in the village’ (letter to J. W. C. Fegan, [December …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 11 hits
- … Soon after Origin was published, Darwin received a letter from Asa Gray offering to arrange an …
- … Darwin responded favourably to Gray’s proposal in his letter of 21 December [1859] ( Correspondence …
- … had been fixed through the process of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and …
- … of species; Darwin sent this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had …
- … [1860] and 1 February [1860]). A month later, in his letter of 8 March [1860], Darwin sent …
- … (especially that given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin …
- … changes he intended to make in the American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860 …
- … corrected Second Edition with additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). …
- … resulting from three separate printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and …
- … are various degenerations of the same type. It was not until 1828 that he published his conviction …
- … of Origin ( Origin 3d ed., pp. 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 14 hits
- … merciless Spaniards.” [ f.153r p.13 ] “Prior to 1828 – the Settlers of Carmen on the Rio Negro …
- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … the latter days of Dec r 1827 and first days of Jan y 1828. Nothing more occurred after it …
- … at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
- … the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
- … of our visit. Bicho-do-mar there are – and Mr Ross had in 1828 – a party of three Chinese brought in …
- … Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
