Encloses S. C. Malan’s letter which WRSR need not return. The letter in Georgian is so foolish he will not reply.
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Encloses S. C. Malan’s letter which WRSR need not return. The letter in Georgian is so foolish he will not reply.
Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.
Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Is pleased that HHHvZ has appended his notes to his translation [of Expression and is obliged for the abstract of these notes [see 8712].
Encloses a cheque for £5.5.0 for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Asks WSD to suspend the enclosed certificate.
Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.
Regrets that he cannot write the requested journal article on comparative anatomy.
"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"
Thanks for explanation. Will follow RBL’s instructions.
CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.
Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.
His health has suddenly failed. He is leaving home for one week’s rest.
Has informed William Clowes that he will begin correcting on the 27th.
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
Can TR distinguish generally, always, or never, a nectarine-tree from a peach-tree before it flowers or before it fruits? He wants to quote TR’s answer.
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).