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To John Innes   6 September [1860]

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Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.

Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".

Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  6 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2907

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  • W.  E.  Darwin, 14 [May 1858] and n.  5). William Waker Phillips lived at Down Hall farm ( Post Office directory for the six home counties 1859). …

To John Innes   18 July [1860]

Summary

Henrietta’s illness.

CD’s resort to [E. W. Lane’s] water-cure.

Other family news.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  18 July [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2870

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  • W.  E.  Darwin, 14 [May 1858] ). Joseph Parslow was the Darwins’ butler. CD possibly refers to William Baxter , the dispensing chemist in Bromley, Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1859). …
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