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• CHARMS OF MUSIC AND FEMALE CHITCHAT ARCHIVE

Perhaps my wife wont like London then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool. Responsibility- less money for books &c- if many children forced to gain one’s bread.- (But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much) cannot read in the Evenings- fatness & idleness- Anxiety &

Conversation of clever men at clubs- Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.- to have the expense & anxiety of children- perhaps quarelling- Loss of time. Marlbro’ St.įreedom to go where one liked- choice of Society & little of it. My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all.- No, no won’t do.- Imagine living all one’s day solitarily in smoky dirty London House.- Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps- Compare this In country, experiment & observations on lower animals,-more space- The original manuscript is in: Cambridge University Library, DAR 210.8:1Ĭhildren-(if it Please God)  - Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one,- object to be beloved & played with.-better than a dog anyhow.-  Home, & someone to take care of house- Charms of music & female chit-chat.- These things good for one’s health.- but terrible loss of time.

I have so much more pleasure in direct observation, that I could not go on as Lyell does, correcting & adding up new information to old train & I do not see what line can be followed by man tied down to London. or poor man outskirts of London, some small Square &c:- & work as well as I can Then Cambridge Professorship,-& make best of it, do duty as such & work at spare times- ¶ My destiny will be Camb. Then Cambridge, better, but fish out of water, not being Professor & poverty. or Zoolog.- comply with all above requisites- I could not systematiz zoologically so well.- But better than hybernating in country, & where? Better even than near London country house.- I could not indolently take country house & do nothing- Could I live in London like a prisoner? If I were moderately rich, I would live in London, with pretty big house & do as (B), but could I act thus with children & poor? No- Then where live in country near London better, but great obstacles to science & poverty. London life, nothing but Society, no country, no tours, no large Zoolog. If marry-means limited, Feel duty to work for money. range, & Geological general works.-Systematiz.- Study affinities. ?.oldest formations? Some experimets- physiological observation on lower animalsī Live in London for where else possible in small house, near Regents Park-keep horse-take Summer tours Collect specimens some line of Zoolog: Speculations of Geograph. If I dont travel.- Work at transmission of Species- Microscope simplest forms of life- Geology. If I travel it must be exclusively geological United States, Mexico Depend upon health & vigour & how far I become Zoological

The related letters contain a selection of musings on marriage by Darwin and his correspondents.

CHARMS OF MUSIC AND FEMALE CHITCHAT ARCHIVE

The original manuscripts are in the Darwin Archive in Cambridge University Library. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of marriage in the months immediately preceding his engagement. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted they were married on 29 January 1839. On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’.