Notes on marriage [after 7 Apr 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8 :1, DAR 210.8: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409 |
To Susan Darwin [1 April 1838]
Summary
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-407 |
From Leonard Horner 7 April [1838]
Summary
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
| Author: | Leonard Horner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-408 |
To John Gould [13 April 1838]
Summary
Gives best wishes for Gould’s trip to Australia.
Notes on Synallaxis behaviour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Gould |
| Date: | [13 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | Dr Daniel C. Devor (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-408F |
From John Gould [13 April] 1838
Summary
Thanks CD for his present of a dram bottle [actually a silver-cased compass]. JG will be reminded daily of their friendship when he is in the wilds [of Australia].
| Author: | John Gould |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Apr] 1838 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Tring Museum Correspondence) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409A |
To Susan Darwin [26 April 1838]
Summary
Thanks for ham and corrections in spelling. Gives account of his social activities in past week.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-410 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gould, John | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
| Gould, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
| Gould, John | (2) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
