Hopes CD will be able to plant a tree in VAEGM’s garden as a memorial of his visit.
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Hopes CD will be able to plant a tree in VAEGM’s garden as a memorial of his visit.
Promises to send an oak.
Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.
CD complains of unfair treatment by EK’s publisher [of Erasmus Darwin, Karl Alberts], who has written that he now does not want the copies of the photographs CD has ordered for him. Is sure that EK will agree that the costs should be deducted from any profits from the sales.
Success of his experiments; report on recent work.
Response to Descent. Suggests some human races may have been produced by natural rather than sexual selection.
WMH will negotiate with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement. Will attempt to make the settlement £5000, the same as Francis received.
Sends some doggerel verse about a literary dandy who is critical of Darwin and Spencer and approves of Ruskin.