Searching for the right gardener.
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Searching for the right gardener.
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.
Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.
Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
E. Krause has sent his corrected proofs with suggestions and questions.
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.
The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.
Thanks for CD’s reply to her letter and his kindness. She is getting over her difficulties.
Describes cow with three toes
and a woman with two functional nipples on left breast.
Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.
Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.
Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.