Will be happy to subscribe to support Jemmy FitzRoy Button. Supposes BJS has considered whether it would be a real kindness to educate the boy.

Thanks for account of Fuegians

and news about old "Beaglers".

Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].

The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.

Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.

Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].

Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.

In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".

Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.

Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.

Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].

CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".

Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".

Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.

Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

Thanks BJS for the missionary pamphlet and his good account of the Fuegians.

Is under the care of Andrew Clark, and feels "very old & helpless".

BJS has just moved.

Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.

Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.

BJS was pleased to see CD’s son [William] and his wife at Charles Langton’s.

His own son is preparing for marriage.

Reports meeting a former Beagle shipmate.

Asks whether CD wishes to join other old "Beagles" in supporting an orphan grandson of Jemmy Button.

Scheme for Jemmy Button’s grandson has fallen through, as he has already been "adopted".

Encloses a letter [missing] on the progress of the Fuegians.

His eldest son has married.

Explains the occurrence of cattle on the Fuegian islands.

Discusses intentions with regard to missionary stations and steamers in the area.

Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.

The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].

Tells of his health and family matters.

Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.

Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.

Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.