Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
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Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
EAD sees advantages to Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant.
George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.
Reports the balloting [for Henry Parker at the Athenaeum?] went off just right.
Calculates ounce and gram equivalents of pints (old and imperial).
Would like Price’s address.
[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Carlyle hoped CD had not been annoyed by that forged letter, which was the reverse of his opinion. [Enclosed is a published extract, said to be taken from a Thomas Carlyle letter, which denies CD’s intellect and regrets his influence.]
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.
Thanks for two pamphlets;
Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.
Details about tithes.