Tag Archives: Letters from England
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As Darwin watches the preparation of the H.M.S. Beagle, he gets (understandably) excited.
It also turns out that Captain FitzRoy was popular with the ladies. Darwin fears that he will get seasick on the...
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Daddy! I wanna go on the boat!
The fateful decision is made September 1: Charles Darwin will indeed sail on the Beagle.
Here’s some back-and-forth between Charles, his father, and Francis Beaufort,...
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Questions, questions.
And lots of dead animals sent by post.
Darwin was very inquisitive. He had to be. But this letter has a wonderful quality to it. He’s about to go collecting pigs’ jaws...
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Man oh man, Charles had a passive-aggressive girlfriend!
Charles had taken a liking to Fanny Owen through his Cambridge years, but as he departed on the Beagle voyage, well…
She dumped him.
Apparently...
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This week: Stinky, stinky, 12-year-old Darwin
Charles Darwin, at the age of 12, wrote several letters into a ‘Memorandum book’ while on vacation from school. He was staying at his family home...
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You can do it, Chas!
Charles Darwin wanted what many academics still strive for: to get published!
It was difficult for other reasons, in his case. Murray, the publisher, might reject a paper that runs...
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Darwin on the Isle of Wight
This week in Darwin’s correspondence: June 18, 1858, 150 years ago — Darwin writes to Charles Lyell from the Isle of Wight, a little island 3 miles from the South...
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As Darwin watches the preparation of the H.M.S. Beagle, he gets (understandably)...
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Daddy! I wanna go on the boat!
The fateful decision is made September 1: Charles...
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Questions, questions.
And lots of dead animals sent by post.
Darwin was very inquisitive....
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Man oh man, Charles had a passive-aggressive girlfriend!
Charles had taken a liking...
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This week: Stinky, stinky, 12-year-old Darwin
Charles Darwin, at the age of 12, wrote...
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You can do it, Chas!
Charles Darwin wanted what many academics still strive for:...
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Darwin on the Isle of Wight
This week in Darwin’s correspondence: June 18,...
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