Sends thanks to all for their letters.
News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.
CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".
Spark has died. Other family news.
Theatre at Shrewsbury.
Spark’s death.
Harry [Henry Allen] Wedgwood will make the circuit for the first time at the forthcoming assizes.
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
Found his vessel delayed. Spent an hour or so at the Hunterian Museum, "well worth going to".
Further particulars of Spark’s death.
Tells of gay times with guests.
Writes of Papa’s disapproval of CD’s practice of picking and choosing only lectures he likes to attend and of his early return home.
News of Erasmus, who is visiting sick poor people in the neighbourhood. Other Shrewsbury news.
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
Family and Shrewsbury news. Visits of relatives and friends.
Tells CD he is recovering from the illness with which he was afflicted when CD visited.
Is coming to Shrewsbury. Finds little to do but hunt rabbits. Has heard from Nathan Hubbersty and Frederick Watkins.
Describes the lectures at medical school in London.
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
They have been having a very gay time. Tells of "Redcoats & Shootables" and several mutual friends.
Surprised to hear from Sarah [Owen] that CD has decided to become a D.D., not an M.D.
She has been to a ball or a party almost every night.
Tells him the Woodhouse family will set forth for return home.
Reports on activities in Brighton.
Writes of the last part of their lively stay at Brighton and three days in London.
None of CD’s sisters can come to enliven the "truly awful" tranquillity at the Forest [Woodhouse].
Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.