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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[1848?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Suggests various remedies for toothache.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[8 May 1848]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses his £3 subscription to JBI’s Sunday School. Asks to reduce it in the future to £2 per annum.

Has been unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.149)
Summary:

Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:

Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
4 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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