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 |
Caroline Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood [5 October 1836]
Summary
CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Date: | [5 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-308 |
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 |
From Caroline Darwin [21 February 1837]
Summary
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-345 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
To Caroline Darwin [19 May – 16 June 1837]
Summary
Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.
Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [19 May – 16 June 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-360 |
To Caroline Wedgwood [May 1838]
Summary
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [May 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-411 |
From Caroline Wedgwood [11 November 1838]
Summary
Expresses her pleasure at CD’s engagement.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 Nov 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-431 |
To Caroline Wedgwood [27 October 1839]
Summary
Describes his routine for a typical day – writing Coral reefs, studying German.
FitzRoy’s "Deluge Chapter" [Narrative 2, ch. 28] will amuse her.
His opinion of Carlyle’s Critical and miscellaneous essays [1839].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [27 Oct 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-542 |
To Caroline Darwin [28 April 1831]
Summary
Had a pleasant week in London and is now enjoying Cambridge, where he is busy with work and social engagements.
Writes with great enthusiasm of his prospective trip to "the Tropics" [Canary Islands]. Henslow will cram him in geology. He is working regularly at Spanish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [28 Apr 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-98 |
From Caroline and Catherine Darwin 28 January [1835]
Summary
Concerned over CD’s illness. His father strongly urges him to come home lest his health be ruined.
News of family and friends.
Twelve Tories elected in Shropshire.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan [1835] |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 16–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-266 |
From Caroline Darwin 29 December [1835]
Summary
CD’s fame is spreading: she quotes Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16], and a passage in the Athenæum.
Adds news of family and friends.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec [1835] |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-291 |
From Catherine & Caroline Darwin 11 April [1826]
Summary
Family and Shrewsbury news. Visits of relatives and friends.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr [1826] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-31 |
From Catherine and Caroline Sarah Darwin [16 February 1837]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-344 |
From Caroline, Catherine, and Susan Darwin 20–31 December [1831]
Summary
Family and Shropshire news.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20–31 Dec [1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-153 |
From R. W. Darwin and the Misses Darwin to J. S. Henslow 1 February 1833
Summary
Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.
Author: | Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 1 Feb 1833 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-199 |
letter | (58) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Darwin, Caroline | (26) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (26) |
Darwin, Catherine | (5) |
Langton, Catherine | (5) |
Darwin, Caroline | (32) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (32) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Caroline | (58) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (58) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Darwin, Catherine | (5) |
Langton, Catherine | (5) |