Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
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CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".
All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].
Writes about proof-correcting by WED [of Origin, 6th ed.].
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Will send back proofs of Origin 6th ed.
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Marriage is basis of all religious forms of thought, and this is the subjective equivalent of CD’s law that sex is the most important agency of universal development.
"Please accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers."
CD glad to hear of success of translation of Descent.
Will not go to press with Expression for six or nine months; hopes HHHvZ will think it worth translating.
A French refugee and populariser of CD’s work asks for an audience.
Report on late JH's manuscript on General History of Double Stars, bequeathed to R.A.S.
Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.
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JDH suggests [Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant Duff become a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Asks after Grant Duff's continental tour with his wife. Complains that the Ayrton controversy is deteriorating further, JDH has brought it to the attention of Prime minister Gladstone & predicts it will end with the dismissal of himself or [Acton Smee] Ayrton.
Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.
Can photograph the scene CD requested only in the spring.
Heliotype is cheap but Woodburytype allows alterations.
Has read Variation and reports on markings on donkeys similar to those in vol. 1, p. 63.