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To J. B. Innes   20 January [1868]

Summary

CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.

George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;

Henrietta has been poorly.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  20 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5792

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  • Innes, 18 July [1860] and n.  4, and Correspondence vol.  10, letter to J.  B.  Innes, 22  …
  • Innes had tried to acquire the property in 1860 as a parsonage. See Correspondence vol.  8, letter to J.  B.   …

Dunn, E. B. (1784/5–1861)

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  • 1860–93. Walford’s county families of the United Kingdom or royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Chatto & Windus; Spottiswoode & Co. 1894–1920. 10 Dunn, H. J. B. Innes, J. B. …

From J. B. Innes to Thomas Sellwood Stephens   [before 5 May 1862]

Summary

JBI asks Stephens to ask CD to send particulars of Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Thomas Sellwood Stephens
Date:  [before 5 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 167: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3533

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  • 1860), and was left in charge of the parish when Innes moved to Scotland early in 1862. Dated by the relationship to the letter from J.  B.   …
  • J.  B.  Innes, 5 May [1862] ). Tromer Lodge is a property located near Down House. Innes considered purchasing the estate in 1860 ( …

From J. B. Innes   4 September [1863]

Summary

Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].

Family news.

Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Sept [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 167: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4290

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  • Innes , 18 July [1860] and 6 September [1860] , and Moore 1985 , p.  469). He had subsequently acquired a property in Down for the use of his curate, Thomas Sellwood Stephens ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). See letter from J.  B.   …

To J. B. Innes   10 December [1868]

Summary

Does not think the supposed cow–deer hybrid worth investigating.

John Robinson [the curate at Down] reported to be walking with girls at night.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  10 Dec [1868]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6497

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  • 1860] ( Correspondence vol.  8). CD had already notified Innes of John Warburton Robinson’s absence from the parish and raised concern about Robinson’s handling of the school accounts (see letter to J.  B.   …

Innes, John (1762/3–1836)

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  • 1860–93. Walford’s county families of the United Kingdom or royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Chatto & Windus; Spottiswoode & Co. 1894–1920. 19 Innes, J. B. …

Leslie, Mary (1775–1859)

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  • 1860–93. Walford’s county families of the United Kingdom or royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Chatto & Windus; Spottiswoode & Co. 1894–1920. 7,13,19 Innes, J. B. …

From J. B. Innes   20 September 1881

Summary

Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.

Sends CD a wasps’ nest.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 167: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13343

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  • J. B. Innes, 15 September 1881 and n. 5). George Gordon was a clergyman in Morayshire, with interests in geology and botany; he had corresponded with CD about orchids in 1860

To J. B. Innes   22 December [1862]

Summary

Family and local news.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  22 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3872

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  • Innes, 18 July [1860] ). It was, however, purchased in the summer of 1862 by Robert Haswell , who in 1863 attracted local notoriety when convicted of smoking in a first-class railway carriage (see letter from J.  B

From John Brodie Innes   29 August [1863]

Summary

Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.

Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.

Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Aug [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 167: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4283

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  • J.  B.  Innes, 4 September [1863] ). Innes also refers to Campbell’s friend Richard Owen ( Rupke 1994 , p.  213); Owen was superintendent of the natural history departments at the British Museum ( DNB , DSB ). See Correspondence vol.  8, letter to John Innes, 11 September [1860] . …
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