From J. B. Innes 24 August 1880
Summary
"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],
burglar alarms,
and family news.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12698 |
To J. B. Innes 23 August [1880]
Summary
JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.
Has revisited Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12696 |
To J. B. Innes 2 December 1880
Summary
Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12881 |
From J. B. Innes 19 August 1880
Summary
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694 |
From J. B. Innes 29 November 1880
Summary
Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12874 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1880]
Summary
News of the opening of the reading room at Down. CD is pleased Innes was interested in his book; both Innes’s facts are new to him.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935F |
From O. A. Ainslie 23 November 1880
Summary
Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11a (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12842 |
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- … 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Robert Ainslie was a Methodist minister who had lived in Down at Pond House (later Tromer Lodge) from 1845 to 1858 (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 [May 1858] and n. 5). The house was sold by Ainslie in 1862 and purchased by Elizabeth Wedgwood in 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. B. Innes, …
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| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
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| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
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