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Extracts from Letters to Henslow
''Extracts from Letters to Henslow'' is an 1835 pamphlet published by John Stevens Henslow at his own expense of extracts from ten letters Charles Darwin sent him while on the HMS ''Beagle''. This pamphlet helped to establish Darwin's reputation amongst renowned scientific publications. However, upon learning of this pamphlet's publication Darwin was "a good deal horrified" at Henslow making public "what had been written without care or accuracy".〔Barlow, ed., ''Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle'', pp. 140–42.〕
== Background ==
Darwin came to know Henslow through his attendance at his scientific talks at Cambridge University. He had heard of Henslow through his brother Erasmus who greatly revered him as a man of scientific brilliance and integrity. Although he was actually studying theology, inspired by Henslow he soon became a visitor to Henslow's house and subsequently met the scientific fraternity.
Henslow obviously rated Darwin highly although at the time Darwin had few formal credentials. This is evident by Henslow's consideration that Darwin should accompany Robert FitzRoy as a companion on the voyage of the ''Beagle''. Henslow had initially been asked himself. He turned this down, dissuaded by his wife. His brother-in-law (Leonard Jenyns) then accepted the post but changed his mind at the last moment.
It was at this point that Henslow sent FitzRoy a letter indicating that he knew someone who would perfectly fit the bill and then wrote Darwin a letter who was on a field trip in Wales with Sedgewick (Professor of Geology) at the time. On his return to Shrewsbury he found a letter from Henslow telling him of his recommendation that Darwin be companion/naturalist to Captain FitzRoy.
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