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To J. B. Innes   16 December 1868

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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.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  16 Dec 1868
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6505

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  • letters from J.  B.  Innes, 12 December 1868  and 14 December 1868 and n.  1. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s aunts, Emma

From J. B. Innes   14 December 1868

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Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.

Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Dec 1868
Classmark:  DAR 167: 23, 23a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6502

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  • Wedgwood had purchased Tromer Lodge in Down village (see letter to J.  B.  Innes, 20 January [1868] and n.  6; see also Emma
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