Will be happy to subscribe to support Jemmy FitzRoy Button. Supposes BJS has considered whether it would be a real kindness to educate the boy.
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Will be happy to subscribe to support Jemmy FitzRoy Button. Supposes BJS has considered whether it would be a real kindness to educate the boy.
The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.
Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.
Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.
Thanks BJS for the missionary pamphlet and his good account of the Fuegians.
Is under the care of Andrew Clark, and feels "very old & helpless".