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Reports events at Down.
Is busy with proofs [of Origin];
is anxious to hear how WED does in his examinations.
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
Discusses events at Ilkley.
Tells how to get information on, and gain membership in, the London Library.
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Tells of Etty’s [Henrietta]’s illness and progress; their future plans.
Mentions some responses to the Origin; the naturalists are fighting over it in North America.
Concern over Henrietta’s illness.
Discusses Henrietta’s illness and their plans to return to Down.
Asks identity of [Henry] Fawcett, who wrote a capital article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [3 (1860): 81–92], "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin".
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Writes of Henrietta’s illness.
Returns [an unspecified] enclosure referring to "a most wonderful cure".
Discusses family and domestic matters.
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.
Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.
Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
Discusses business matters relating to WED and the bank.
