To The Master & Fellows, Caius College [19 December 1836 – 6 March 1837]
Summary
"Mr Darwin presents his compliments to the Master & Fellows of Caius Coll. and is extremely sorry he is prevented by a previous engagement the honor of dining with them on Thursday."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caius College |
Date: | [19 Dec 1836 – 6 Mar 1837] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-326 |
To W. D. Fox 15 December [1836]
Summary
Informs WDF of his activities since the Beagle landed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 15 Dec [1836] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-327 |
To Richard Owen 19 December [1836]
Summary
Has written to Royal College of Surgeons, exactly as RO recommended, concerning disposition of his South American fossil bones. He fixed on the British Museum, rather than Paris, to receive plaster casts, because he was on board a King’s ship. Suggests RO propose another set for Paris, where they would be more useful than at BM. Has scarcely begun unpacking his cases.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 19 Dec [1836] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-329 |
From William Owen Sr 19 December 1836
Summary
Asks CD’s help in finding a tutor for his son Charles.
Author: | William Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-331 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [20 December 1836]
Summary
Has returned CD’s Beagle journal MS. Thinks it would be an interesting account even if they did not know CD, and that it will be successful if published; the less it is mixed up with FitzRoy’s journal, the better.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Dec 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-332 |
From Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood 23 December [1836]
Summary
Has been presenting wedding gifts to her nieces and nephews during CD’s absence, without asking whether they are ready for them, so she sends him £40.
Caroline says CD has taken a lecture room for his work at Cambridge.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-333 |
From Anthony Carlisle 23 December 1836
Summary
The Royal College of Surgeons’ Board of Curators approve the terms and conditions under which CD has offered his S. American fossil bones to the College, and have sent their recommendation to the Council.
Author: | Anthony Carlisle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-334 |
From Charles Lyell 26 December 1836
Summary
Comments on [MS of] CD’s paper ["Elevation on the coast of Chili" (4 Jan 1837), Collected papers 1: 41–3].
Invites CD to dinner. "Don’t accept any official scientific place, if you can avoid it".
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1836 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell (1881) 1: 474–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-335 |
From Robert FitzRoy 30 December 1836
Summary
RF has consulted W. J. Broderip, who recommended a joint three-volume publication of Captain King’s journal, FitzRoy’s, and CD’s, with profits divided by three. What does CD think of such a plan? RF promised Colburn an answer in January.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-337 |
From Catherine Darwin 29 January 1836
Summary
They have been reading about the wreck of the Challenger; much impressed by Capt. FitzRoy’s bravery.
The W. D. Foxes have a daughter. Family news.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-296 |
To Catherine Darwin 14 February 1836
Summary
All prefer Hobart Town and its society to Sydney. CD’s view on emigration to colonies. All on board are homesick.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | 14 Feb 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-298 |
From Caroline Darwin 28 March 1836
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-300 |
To Caroline Darwin 29 April 1836
Summary
Keeling Islands, his first coral lagoons; he has been occupied with subject of coral formation for six months.
Very busy at sea rewriting old geological notes. Has difficulties with writing.
FitzRoy has proposed joint account of the journey, combining CD’s journal with his own.
Looks forward with anxiety to Henslow’s reaction to the geological notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 29 Apr 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-301 |
To Catherine Darwin 3 June 1836
Summary
Will call on Sir J. Herschel, then take short trip in the African desert.
Horrified at the publication of "the little book of extracts" from his letters to Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | 3 June 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 223: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-302 |
To South African Christian Recorder 28 June 1836
Summary
A defence of the work of missionaries in the Pacific islands and Australia. [The letter was apparently written by RF with supporting evidence quoted from CD’s journal. The letter is signed by RF alone. A summary conclusion, as printed, is signed by both:] "On the whole, balancing all that we have heard, and all that we ourselves have seen concerning the missionaries in the Pacific, we are very much satisfied that they thoroughly deserve the warmest support, not only of individuals, but of the British Government."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | South African Christian Recorder |
Date: | 28 June 1836 |
Classmark: | South African Christian Recorder 2(1836): 238 Reprint in Darwin Library—CUL: ‘Philosophical tracts’ |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-303 |
To Caroline Darwin 18 July 1836
Summary
In five days of geologising on St Helena, he found that the shells on high land had been mistakenly identified as seashells. They are land shells, but of species no longer living.
Can think of nothing but the return to England and his family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 18 July 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 223: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-305 |
To Caroline Darwin 24 October [1836]
Summary
Last four days have been spent calling on naturalists. Geologists have been kind, but zoologists seem to think a number of undescribed creatures a nuisance.
Will send his belongings to Cambridge, but eventually his quarters must be London.
FitzRoy is to be married.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 24 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-313 |
To Caroline Darwin [9 November 1836]
Summary
His fossil bones are unpacked and some are great treasures. He has some geology to do: R. I. Murchison has lent him a map and asked him to look at a part of the country he has been describing.
Their only protection against having Harriet Martineau as sister-in-law is that she works Erasmus too hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [9 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-321 |
To Caroline Darwin [7 December 1836]
Summary
Dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’. They have agreed to go over his journal. Henry Holland thinks it not worth publishing alone because it goes over FitzRoy’s ground.
His impressions of Harriet Martineau: "She is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [7 Dec 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-325 |
To Anthony Carlisle [19 December 1836]
Summary
"Read a letter [to AC] of the 19th Instant from Mr Charles Darwin of Christs College, Cambridge stating that understanding from the Conservators that a Series of fossil Bones collected during the voyage of H: M: Surveying Vessel Beagle possesses a peculiar Interest as connected with Specimens already in the Museum of this College that it had always been his intention to present such Bones to some public collection on the condition that Casts thereof should be given to the leading Public Bodies for the sake of making them more generally useful, specifying the British Museum the Geological Society and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and one set for himself: and that under such Conditions he should be most happy to present the entire series to the Museum of this College."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anthony Carlisle; Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Date: | [19 Dec 1836] |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (Minute book of Board of Curators MUS/2/1/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-330 |
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) |