To Robert FitzRoy [4 or 11 October 1831]
Summary
CD’s luggage is frightfully bulky, though he has been as economical as possible. Has made financial arrangements for his expenses.
Plans to study mathematics during voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | [4 or 11] Oct 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-139 |
To J. S. Henslow [4 or 11 October 1831]
Summary
Asks JSH to take charge of his consignments of specimens from the voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [4 or 11] Oct 1831 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 8 DAR/1/1/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-140 |
To Robert FitzRoy [10 October 1831]
Summary
Has just heard Beagle sailing is delayed so he will remain another week in London. Asks whether RF has a good set of mountain barometers, which geologists tell him are important.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | [10 Oct 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-142 |
From J. S. Henslow 25 October 1831
Summary
Gives CD directions for sending him specimens from Beagle.
Writes of Cambridge politics.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-143 |
To J. S. Henslow 30 [October 1831]
Summary
Hopes to be able to help Cambridge Philosophical Society with his collections, but thinks most will have to go to British Museum.
Describes Beagle quarters, the surgeon [Robert McCormick, M.D.], and officers.
Asks JSH’s advice on studying mathematics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 30 [Oct 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 9 DAR/1/1/9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-144 |
From Fanny Owen [6 October 1831]
Summary
Their letters crossed; she now knows he will be gone for three years, not two; does not know what they will do without him at the Forest, but wishes him well.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Oct 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-141 |
To Caroline Darwin [31?] October [1831]
Summary
Questions about his college bills.
Describes the living conditions he will have on the Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [31?] Oct [1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-145 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (1) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (1) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
