Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.
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Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.
Wants to sell some shares held in trust by EAD and Josiah Wedgwood [III].
Writes concerning marriage trust.
Asks EAD to forward a message of Anne’s improved state to Down.
Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
Has heard nothing about the Copley Medal. Is grateful for Hugh Falconer’s interest [see 4546].
Supplies details about circumstances of his voyage on the Beagle.
Does not believe that his sea-sickness was the cause of his subsequent ill-health.
Encloses the requested list of publications [see 4550].
Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.
News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.
Writes about canal shares EAD holds as trustee.
Asks [EAD] to get signatures as opportunity offers.
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
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.
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.