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DCP-LETT-6486

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 53
Summary:

Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.

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DCP-LETT-6497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
10 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Does not think the supposed cow–deer hybrid worth investigating.

John Robinson [the curate at Down] reported to be walking with girls at night.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6504

From:
Lachlan McLean
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 16
Summary:

Describes an animal that is said to be a hybrid between a cow and a deer.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
16 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.

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