Proposes a dry place for the apparatus for their laboratory and draws a plan for CD’s criticism.
Price has found black sediment in his tea, which was attracted to a magnet.
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Would like Price’s address.
[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.
Asks CD to do an experiment for him.
Has found a curious stone in his fire.
Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
Carlyle hoped CD had not been annoyed by that forged letter, which was the reverse of his opinion. [Enclosed is a published extract, said to be taken from a Thomas Carlyle letter, which denies CD’s intellect and regrets his influence.]
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Tells CD a bill is all right. Hopes his father will pay it and a wine merchant’s bill as well.
F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.
Share dealings.
Thanks for two pamphlets;
Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.
Details about tithes.
Asks CD to sign his guarantee.
Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.
