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 |
To J. S. Henslow [c. 26 October –] 24 November [1832]
Summary
A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-192 |
From J. M. Herbert 1[–4] December 1832
Summary
Sends news of himself and CD’s friends. Discusses changes in England, the coming elections, Cambridge politics.
Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1[–4] Dec 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-193 |
From Catherine Darwin 8 January – 4 February 1832
Summary
News of family and friends, much of it about forthcoming marriages: Fanny Owen and R. M. Biddulph, Fanny Mackintosh and Hensleigh Wedgwood. Charlotte Wedgwood will write to him of her own engagement to Charles Langton.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan – 4 Feb 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-154 |
From Charlotte Wedgwood 12 January – 1 February 1832
Summary
Writes about Hensleigh Wedgwood’s marriage to Frances Mackintosh and her own engagement to Charles Langton. Also gives news of other relatives and friends.
Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 and 29 Jan 1832 and 1 Feb 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-155 |
From Fanny Owen 1 March 1832
Summary
Writes affectionately of the good times they have had and of her friendship for CD. Tells him of her forthcoming marriage to R. M. Biddulph.
Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-162 |
From Caroline Darwin (with postscript by Marianne Parker) 12[–31] March [1832]
Summary
Describes the gathering at Maer and the events culminating in Charlotte Wedgwood’s marriage to Charles Langton.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12–[31] Mar [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-163 |
To Caroline Darwin 2–6 April 1832
Summary
CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His mail gave him great pleasure. For two weeks he will visit a large estate in the country, and on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 2–6 Apr 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-164 |
To Caroline Darwin 25–6 April [1832]
Summary
His trip to the interior was full of interest, but exhausting physically. Expects to stay at least a fortnight at Botofogo, because the Beagle returns to Bahia to correct a difference in the longitude measurements. Writes of his companions, of FitzRoy, and of his journal – which he has sent home.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 25–6 Apr [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 223: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-166 |
From Catherine Darwin 26[–7] April [1832]
Summary
Writes chiefly of family affairs: Erasmus’ visit, further delay in Fanny Owen’s marriage, Sarah [Owen] Williams’ illness, Arthur Owen’s sad departure for India; cholera.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26[–7] Apr [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-167 |
To Catherine Darwin May–June [1832]
Summary
Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.
The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | May–June [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-169 |
From Caroline Darwin 12–28 June [1832]
Summary
Brings CD up to date on family and many friends. Describes the wedding of Fanny Owen and R. M. Biddulph. Sedgwick called on return from Wales. W. D. Fox has been very ill.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12–28 June [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-173 |
To Catherine Darwin 5 July [1832]
Summary
Sailing next day to Montevideo. He has taken many hitherto undescribed animals. Describes the glories of the Brazilian forest.
Mentions his concern over the Reform Bill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | 5 July [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-176 |
From Catherine Darwin 25 July [– 3 August] 1832
Summary
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-179 |
From Caroline Darwin 12[–18] September 1832
Summary
News of the Darwin, Wedgwood, and Owen families, including a report on Frances Wedgwood’s death.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12[–18] Sept 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-185 |
From Charlotte Langton 27 [September] 1832
Summary
Rejoices in what she hears of his voyage and his pleasures in it.
Writes of her new life, and of their relatives and friends.
Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Sept] 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-186 |
From Catherine Darwin 14 October [1832]
Summary
Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree
and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].
Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-187 |
To Caroline Darwin 24 October – 24 November [1832]
Summary
During the past two months CD has been lucky with fossil bones, and he is also finding new specimens of living animals.
He describes an ostrich hunt.
Has received several letters from home.
He enjoys Buenos Aires and admires the señoritas. Tierra del Fuego is next.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 24 Oct & 24 Nov [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 223: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-188 |
From Sarah Williams 26[–31] August 1832
Summary
Gives CD an "account of my life and adventures since we parted" and news of her family.
Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26[–31] Aug 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-183 |
letter | (39) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Darwin, Catherine | (4) |
Darwin, S. E. | (4) |
Langton, Catherine | (4) |
Darwin, Caroline | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Darwin, Caroline | (3) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (3) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
Darwin, Catherine | (6) |
Langton, Catherine | (6) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |