Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
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Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
Instinct in cats.
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
Describes crying in an infant.
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
Send CD a present of a fur coat.