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DCP-LETT-6504

From:
Lachlan McLean
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 16
Summary:

Describes an animal that is said to be a hybrid between a cow and a deer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
16 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.

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DCP-LETT-6507

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 24
Summary:

Has forwarded a veterinary surgeon’s description of the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer, see 6504]. A neighbour who has seen it is convinced it is genuine.

JBI can do no more about John Robinson.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6939

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 25
Summary:

R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.

JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6942

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
18 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.

Gives Down news.

R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.

CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6948

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 26
Summary:

Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.

Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7087

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 167: 27
Summary:

JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7439

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
13 Jan 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has forgotten about S. J. O. Horsman and the church organ and asks for any information that will help him inform his solicitors in connection with a document he has received and encloses. Will not apologise for what he said, but is ignorant of what it was.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7445

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
18 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD’s anxiety about being examined in court if Horsman [former curate at Down] brings suit. He doubts it will happen, but if so will defend himself to utmost.

Has pleasant recollections of his relations with JBI.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7449

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 28
Summary:

JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.

His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7455

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
26 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD’s health has been poor.

Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.

In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7768

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 29
Summary:

Has finished Descent, which charmed but did not convert him.

Sends examples of dogs’ reasoning.

Has given up his farm.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
29 May [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Not surprised that JBI does not agree with him. Many professed naturalists do not. But there has been a great change since publication of Origin, and CD believes agreement on man will come soon, "as far as his corporeal frame is concerned".

Horsman has not been heard from.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7801

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 30
Summary:

On Down parish matters.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9973

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 167: 32
Summary:

Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,

and about Scottish education.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
10 May [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.

Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10732

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

News of the parish and neighbours.

CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].

He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4387

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 3
Summary:

Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4395

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 4
Summary:

Family affairs.

Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6405F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 June [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.

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