Sends the tithes.
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Sends the tithes.
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Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Never mind the letter to the Geological Society; the museum got the book for Carlyle.
Describes a box which has come for CD.
Asks for John Price’s address.
Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.
Will be glad to have CD.
Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].
Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.
EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?
CD has been seriously ill. Doubts he will be able to receive a visit.
Mrs Darwin has written that CD is no better, and visitors have been forbidden.
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].
Calls CD’s attention to an article by Paul Janet.
Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.