Volume 1

More letters of Charles Darwin : a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters / edited by Francis Darwin ... and A.C. Seward.

  • Charles Darwin
Date:
1903
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Credit: More letters of Charles Darwin : a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters / edited by Francis Darwin ... and A.C. Seward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Letter 2 these I like very much. I said this account should be short, but I am afraid it has been too long, like the lectures them¬ selves. I will be a good boy and tell something about Johnson again (not but what I am very much surprised that Papa should so forget himself as call me, a Collegian in the University of Edinburgh, a boy). He has changed his lodgings for the third time ; he has got very cheap ones, but I am afraid it will not answer, for they must make up by cheating. I hope you like Erasmus’ official news, he means to begin every letter so. You mentioned in your letter that Emma was staying with you: if she is not gone, ask her to tell Jos that I have not succeeded in getting any titanium, but that I will try again. ... I want to know how old I shall be next birthday—I believe 17, and-if so, I shall be forced to go abroad for one year, since it is necessary that I shall have completed my 21st year before I take my degree. Now you have no business to be frowning and puzzling over this letter, for I did not promise to write a good hand to you. Letter ^ To J. S. Henslow. Extracts from Darwin’s letters to Henslow were read before the Cambridge Philosophical Society on Nov. 16th, 1835. Some of the letters were subsequently printed, in an 8vo pamphlet of 31 pp., dated Dec. 1st, 1835, for private distribution among the members of the Society. A German translation by W. Preyer appeared in the Deutsche Rundschau, June 1891. [15th Aug., 1832. Monte Video.] We are now beating up the Rio Plata, and I take the opportunity of beginning a letter to you. I did not send off the specimens from Rio Janeiro, as I grudged the time it would take to pack them up. They are now ready to be sent off and most probably go by this packet. If so they go to Falmouth (where Pitz-Roy has made arrangements) and so will not trouble your brother’s agent in London. When I left England I was not fully aware how essential a kindness you offered me when you undertook to receive my boxes. I do not know what I should do without such head-quarters. And now for an apologetical prose about my collection : I am afraid you will say it is very small, but I have not been idle, and you must recollect what a very
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