To W. D. Fox 1 August [1831]
Summary
Will send his insects and two or three from Henslow.
The Canary scheme takes place next June.
Is grieved WDF thinks him capable of telling falsehoods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-103 |
From J. S. Henslow 24 August 1831
Summary
JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97(ser.2):4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-105 |
From George Peacock [c. 26 August 1831]
Summary
Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.
| Author: | George Peacock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Aug 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-106 |
To J. S. Henslow 30 [August 1831]
Summary
Feels he should decline Beagle voyage offer because of his father’s objections, which he lists. Would otherwise have taken all risks.
[Geological] trip with Adam Sedgwick a success.
Grieved at Marmaduke Ramsay’s death.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 30 [Aug 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 2 DAR/1/1/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-107 |
To R. W. Darwin 31 August [1831]
Summary
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-110 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Peacock, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Peacock, George | (1) |
