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DCP-LETT-2870

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

DCP-LETT-2907

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

DCP-LETT-2912

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

DCP-LETT-2962

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

DCP-LETT-3032

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
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