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.
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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.
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.
Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.
Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
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".
Recounts case of parrot whose talking seems to show "power of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas" [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.].
Has not seen CD’s daughter yet. Hopes the fine weather will continue while she is there [in Bournemouth].
Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.
Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.
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.
Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.
Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
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".
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.
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.
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.
Scheme for Jemmy Button’s grandson has fallen through, as he has already been "adopted".