JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
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JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.
Compliments JNH on the instructive tone of his sermon [‘Hospital Sunday’ preached in Chapel Royal, Dublin, 15 Nov 1874].
Sends photographs.
Thanks for explanation. Will follow RBL’s instructions.
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.
Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.
Expression does not move.