From John Innes 9 January [1858–9]
Summary
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1858-9] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13818 |
From J. B. Innes 16 December [1862]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3863 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … miles north of Down, on 19 August 1861 ( John Lubbock’s diary (British Library, Add. Ms. …
- … 62679: 64 r. ); John Lubbock’s fourth child, Norman, was born in 1861 ( Hutchinson 1914 ). …
- … in 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9). Henry James Lubbock , the second son of John William …
- … firmly at present. John must be a great loss to Lady Lubbock but his own party increased …
- … Lubbock , continued to live with them at High Elms, near Down, until 1869, when he was 31 years old (see letter to J. B. Innes, 18 October 1869 , Calendar no. 6942). The Lubbocks’ eldest son, John, …
From John Brodie Innes 15 October 1869
Summary
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6939 |
From J. B. Innes 4 December 1868
Summary
Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6492 |
From J. B. Innes 13 June 1868
Summary
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6241 |
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 |
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 |
From J. B. Innes 19 February [1862]
Summary
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3454 |
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
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 |
From J. B. Innes 21 January 1871
Summary
JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.
His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7449 |
From J. B. Innes 20 October 1869
Summary
Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.
Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6948 |
From J. B. Innes 31 August 1868
Summary
JBI has been charmed with Variation. Does not think there is really any theological difficulty in the "predestination of variation".
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6335 |
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