Has read Earthworms and suggests, as an architect, that leaf linings protect worm burrow from the worm’s rapid movements.

Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.

Thanks CD for writing to Murray concerning Journal of researches extracts for his reading-book.

Sends photograph of a wild goose that survived being shot by a nine-inch arrowhead.

Thanks for CD’s appreciation of his work on family history. Sends one of his books [unidentified].

Twelve "Revised Directions" for CD’s treatment, mainly diet.

Describes earthworms moving to the surface to escape moles.

Sends specimen of soil and buried clay.

Response to Movement in plants. Setting out to confirm CD’s experiments. Believes plant cell motion, like that of animals, depends on protoplasm more than water.

At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.

Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].

Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.

Summarises points of interest in his Report upon cotton insects [U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology (1879)].

Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.

Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?

His publishers are as puzzled as CD about what the title of his new book [Movement in plants] should be. Sends a tentative one in proof [missing].

Matters related to Climbing plants

and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.

Movement in plants will be 600 pages. Does CD wish to publish at own expense or on the usual terms with Murray? Estimates expense of printing and possible profit.

RC estimates that 1000 copies of Movement in plants if sold at 14s would produce a profit of £6. Might more be printed, or the price raised?

Has CD made arrangements with D. Appleton for Movement in plants? CD’s instructions about the index have been forwarded.

Cost of electrotypes from the woodcuts [in Movement in plants] for French and German editions. Suggests CD charge more than actual cost in order to repay his expenses.

If every copy [of Movement in plants] is sold at 15s, CD will lose about £50.