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JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".
The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.
Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.
[Isolated fragments only.]
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
Has returned from holiday. Family news.
Concern over Hooker’s health.
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Thanks for "Climbing plants".
Requests CD copy out a passage of Origin and autograph it for publication.
How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.