Sends a copy of his book [The student’s Darwin (1881)]. Hopes he may be forgiven for carrying his reasoning further than CD may allow.

Apologises for the trouble he has caused RM. Encloses letter [13280] which has been returned to CD [by August Dupré, to whom CD had sent it in error].

Thanks CD for his letter of 21 June [13212].

Is sending seeds of Oxalis sepium, which came from a cross between a plant with long pistils and another with pistils intermediate in length. Perhaps some of the plants that come from them will have short pistils.

FM does not know who told Dr B [Wilhelm Breitenbach] that he had lost a whole library in the flood. In fact, he lost only a few books that he had left behind thinking they were safe where they were.

Has taken the opportunity of a recent cold spell to test CD’s views on nyctitropism [night movements] in plants. Describes Pandanus and Oxalis sepium.

Has just received CD’s letter of 4 July and he is glad that his observations on the effects of rain on plants interested CD.

Many thanks for Movement in plants.

Sends some seeds wanted by CD.

Working on York BAAS address; finds CD’s comments helpful. JDH writes detailed response and expansion.

Thanks EBA for his book [see 13283]. Has no objection to people differing from him or carrying his arguments further than he would consider safe.

Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.

Opinion of Humboldt.

Origin of higher phanerogams.

Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.

Sends his autograph.

Returns an invoice for a book he has not received and does not remember ordering.

The author sent him a copy a few weeks ago.

Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.

Trifolium resupinatum is not in season.

Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.

Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).

No one could have thought about evolution and not about representative species; yet no one discussed it fully until Origin, including von Baer.

Did not know of Leopold von Buch’s Description physique des îles Canaries [1836] when Origin was published.

"As far as I know no one ever discussed the meaning of the relation between representative species before I did & as I suppose Wallace did in his paper before the Linn. Soc. [1858]."

Sends CD information he had requested on W. Graham.

Encloses a letter from his son G. H. Darwin and another from his son Francis Darwin.

The General Post Office sent one penny in response to GHD’s complaint, and demanded a receipt, which CD has sent. CD will keep the penny.

Looks forward to CD’s visit on 8 Sept.

E. J. Trelawney, the friend of Shelley and Byron, has just died in a nearby village.

Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."

Comments on large orange.

Glad she is going to York [BAAS meeting].