To C. T. Whitley [19 July 1831]
Summary
He is "mad about Geology" and plans to ride through Wales in August with a few days at Barmouth.
Some humorous gossip.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | [19 July 1831] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-102A |
To Charles Thomas Whitley [9 September 1831]
Summary
Mentions letters from Peacock and Henslow; tells of offer of a position on surveying voyage, his initial refusal, and eventual acceptance. Describes FitzRoy and course of voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | [9 Sept 1831] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-121 |
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 |
To Charles Thomas Whitley 23 [September 1831]
Summary
Thanks CTW for his letter [125]. "I do not think I ever received a more kind letter than yours or one that gave me so much pleasure.— You ought to have in your mind, the prospect of leaving England for 3 or 4 years before you can understand how to enjoy such a letter from such a person as yourself—". Regarding the voyage, "all is finally settled, & I have sealed away about half a chance of life.— If one lived merely to see how long one could spin out life,—I should repent my choice.— As it is I do not.—"
Thanks CTW for four fungi which have arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 23 [Sept 1831] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-135A |
To Charles Whitley 15 November [1831]
Summary
Regrets that it will be impossible to visit Cambridge for some years. Reminisces about CW’s "classical Sunday evenings", the Glutton Club, and his friends.
"We spend about 2 years in S. America, the rest of time larking round the world."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 15 Nov [1831] |
Classmark: | T. H. W. Bower (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-148 |
To Charles Whitley 23 July 1834
Summary
Would welcome hearing Cambridge news. Impossible not to regret friends and pleasures in England, but
has much solid enjoyment and never-failing interest in geology. Tells of his first sight of a savage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 23 July 1834 |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 4260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-250 |
From Charles Whitley 5 February 1835
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter [250], giving news of himself and mutual friends.
Author: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-267 |
To Charles Whitley 24 October [1836]
Summary
Congratulates CW on his marriage. Waiting in London till Beagle arrives in Woolwich.
Describes recent visit to Henslow in Cambridge.
At a loss to arrange specimens and observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 24 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 41567: 248–50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-314 |
To C. T. Whitley [8 May 1838]
Summary
Treasures recollections of old friends but seldom sees any. Has turned "a complete scribbler".
His scientific activities.
No wife in sight so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | [8 May 1838] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-411A |
To C. T. Whitley 20 June [1863]
Summary
Recalls the long walks in Cambridge with the "expectant senior wrangler". Cannot accept invitation (related to meetings of the BAAS) because of continuing bad health, his own and that of his children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 20 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4217A |
To C. T. Whitley 23 November [1838]
Summary
Announces his engagement.
Glad CW wondered at Glen Roy. "I saw nothing in my peregrinations to the Antipodes nearly so curious in physical geography."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 23 Nov [1838] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-443 |
To C. T. Whitley [10 August 1828]
Summary
His idle life and the pleasures of Barmouth: "my reading [in mathematics] is a failure"; "Beettle hunting … is my proper sphere".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | [10 Aug 1828] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-45A |
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