My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your kind letter, & regret that I can only answer your questions imperfectly.¹

(1) Stukeley— Born 1687. He wrote on Stonehenge & many antiquarian works.²

(2) Spalding Club, an old & famous Society for Antiquarian & scientific researches; it published many volumes; but I know nothing further about it.³

(3) Scriblerus, I know nothing.⁴

(4) Okes a physician not celebrated⁵

(5) Bentley not related to any one famous.⁶

(6) Boothby a country gentleman & poet—not celebrated.⁷

(7) Crawford— I know nothing—⁸

(8) Cavendish, not brother of the celebrated Cavendish, but of the same family—⁹

(9) A physician & professor at Edinburgh¹⁰

(10) Cradock a literary man, now forgotten¹¹

(11) Darwinian Snowdrops—means merely planted by D^r D.

(12) Foot, a surgeon notorious at the time for many bitter attacks on the illustrious John Hunter¹²

(13) Lunar Club—used to meet monthly in Birmingham; it included a surprising number of distinguished men.¹³

M^r. Murray always has in the autumn a sale of the new books published by him; & the number then sold generally shews how far a new book will be successful; & I am sorry to say that only 600 copies of the Life of Dr D. were sold—¹⁴ It is however possible that the sale may improve

My dear Sir | yours sincerely | Charles Darwin