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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

DCP-LETT-4290

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 12
Summary:

Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].

Family news.

Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4357

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 13
Summary:

Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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