Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.
Hopes CD will visit again.
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.
Division of Catherine’s estate.
Arrangements for EAD’s will.
Wishes CD would pay him another visit.
Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?
EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.
Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.
Disposal of Susan’s effects.
Frank and Henry [Parker] are executors.
EAD is bringing away a large packet of CD’s letters from abroad.
Disposal of Susan’s effects. Legacies to CD’s children. EAD has taken the letters and papers and asked Henry [Parker] to forward the George Richmond pictures of CD and Emma.
Caroline looks "miserably ill".
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.
J. J. Sylvester reports George’s fellowship "the most enviable position on earth".
Charles [Parker?] "appears to be ruined".
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".