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DCP-LETT-2870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
18 July [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Henrietta’s illness.

CD’s resort to [E. W. Lane’s] water-cure.

Other family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
6 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.

Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".

Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2912

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
11 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Going to sea-side for Etty’s health.

Asks JBI further questions about a striped donkey he had reported to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
26 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Etty has had a relapse. "What the end will be, we know not."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
28 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

News of Etty’s health and of neighbours.

Pleased that JBI likes Origin.

CD never expected to convert people in less than 20 years, though now convinced he is "in the main right". Bishop of Oxford’s review made "splendid fun" of him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3074

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 69
Summary:

A bee’s sting always remains behind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Delighted to have Quiz [Johnny Innes’ dog].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
19 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Arrangements for receiving Quiz.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3349

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for sending Quiz.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3370

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:

Quiz has been sent off to Down.

JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[3] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz arrived safely.

CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3454

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 8
Summary:

Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.

Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 May [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.

Horace Darwin strangely ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3533

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Thomas Sellwood Stephens
Date:
[before 5 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 2
Summary:

JBI asks Stephens to ask CD to send particulars of Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3534

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 9
Summary:

About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.

Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3863

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 10
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
22 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family and local news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4283

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 11
Summary:

Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.

Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.

Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family and local news, and memories of old times.

CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.

CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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