From Adam Sedgwick 4 September 1831
Summary
Reports on his geological work in N. Wales since he and CD parted. Answers CD’s queries.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-116 |
From John Coldstream 13 September 1831
Summary
Suggestions and information helpful to CD in preparation for Beagle voyage. David Brewster’s meteorological papers. Suggests an oyster-trawl for collecting marine animals. Recommends CD see R. E. Grant. For meteorological observations suggests F. W. Beechey’s Voyage to the Pacific [1831] and an interview with J. F. Daniell of King’s College.
Author: | John Coldstream |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-124 |
From Charles Whitley 13 September 1831
Summary
Congratulates CD on Beagle appointment as an "opportunity … of studying all the natural sciences at once, after your own taste".
Author: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-125 |
From Adam Sedgwick 18 September 1831
Summary
Is glad of CD’s appointment and hopes it will be a source of happiness and honour.
Answers a query about books.
Suggests CD go to Geological Society, present himself, as AS’s friend, to William Lonsdale and study the Society’s collection.
Tells CD of his work in Wales; includes a diagram and explanations.
Ramsay’s death a grievous loss.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-129 |
From Frederick Watkins [18 September 1831]
Summary
Rejoices in CD’s appointment and predicts he will rank with Candolle, Henslow, and Linnaeus.
Recounts their past pleasures and gives news of friends, who are scattering fast.
Author: | Frederick Watkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Sept 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-130 |
From Robert FitzRoy 23 September 1831
Summary
Regrets he cannot take Francis Owen on Beagle as midshipman. RF thinks CD had better be on the books [for victuals], but CD should do as he likes. Refitting progress is slow.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-135 |
From Charlotte Wedgwood 22 September [1831]
Summary
Sends congratulations and good wishes; feels the Wedgwoods bear much responsibility, since he would not have accepted the Beagle appointment had he not been at Maer "that 1st. of September".
Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept [1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-133 |
From Fanny Owen [22 September – 2 October 1831]
Summary
Sends him a purse, which she asks him to use in remembrance of her.
Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Sept – 2 Oct 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-134 |
From Fanny Owen [26 September 1831]
Summary
Much disappointed that CD will leave home before she returns.
Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Sept 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-136 |
From Sarah Owen [27–30 September 1831]
Summary
She encloses a pin with "genuine hair" and is flattered that it will go around the world with CD.
Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27–30 Sept 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-137 |
Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (2) |
Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (2) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (2) |
Coldstream, John | (1) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (2) |
Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (2) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (2) |
Coldstream, John | (1) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
Langton, Charlotte | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
Watkins, Frederick | (1) |
Wedgwood, Charlotte | (1) |
Whitley, C. T. | (1) |
Williams, S. H. | (1) |