Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
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Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.
Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.
Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."
Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].
Suggests the names of two bird-preservers for JMH’s friend.
In reference to an earlier letter, replies: "As for Birds of Paradise from the West Indies, tell that to the marines, as we used to say on board the Beagle".
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.
Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".
Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.
Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
Hopes Richard Owen will have time to do CD’s shells in spirits.
Doubts WJB’s suggestion that moles may play a part in formation of mould.
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].
He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.