CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
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CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
Sends his signature
Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Sends autograph as requested.
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Unable to accept invitation.
Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.