Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
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Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Declines offer of book on physics.
When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
Thanks for the photographs.
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.
Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.
Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.
"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".