Sends some questions [missing].
Bad health has prevented him from working for six weeks.
Sends some questions [missing].
Bad health has prevented him from working for six weeks.
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [Primitive culture (1871)], wonders if he should abridge part into a small popular volume.
On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.
Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].
Sends CD £100 as requested. Gives information on bonds purchased on CD’s behalf.
Sending 35 letters, has 20 more that she will send later if she would like to see them. Wishes she had the photographs of insects. Thinks an appendix of all the riddles would be amusing.
Has received the packet of letters and has chosen 28 of them. Quite understands that some of the more personal ones should not be included in the memoir. Her strength does not seem equal to the task. Hopes to show the true events connected with University College. Budget of Paradoxes is ready for the press.
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