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Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
Reports on the standing of James Torbitt: "the opinion of the Public is that he is rich and highly respectable".
Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
On flowers bending towards light reflected in a mirror.
Seeks R. B. Litchfield’s advice about publishing a translation of a letter and article by E. Krause [answering Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory].
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
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.
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
Instinct in cats.
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
On behalf of her father, she asks that his name be put down for James Buckman’s testimonial. His cheque for £2.2.0 is enclosed.
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.