To J. B. Innes 24 February [1862]
Summary
Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.
Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3457 |
To J. B. Innes 1 May [1862]
Summary
Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.
Horace Darwin strangely ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3528 |
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 |
To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
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 |
To J. B. Innes 15 June [1868]
Summary
CD writes in detail about difficulties with Horsman’s financial accounts and the affairs of the parish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6242 |
To J. B. Innes 2 September 1868
Summary
Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].
Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.
CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.
Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6345 |
To J. B. Innes 1 December 1868
Summary
Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6486 |
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 |
To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
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 |
To J. B. Innes 18 October 1869
Summary
CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.
Gives Down news.
R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.
CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6942 |
To J. B. Innes 13 January 1871
Summary
CD has forgotten about S. J. O. Horsman and the church organ and asks for any information that will help him inform his solicitors in connection with a document he has received and encloses. Will not apologise for what he said, but is ignorant of what it was.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 13 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7439 |
To J. B. Innes 18 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about being examined in court if Horsman [former curate at Down] brings suit. He doubts it will happen, but if so will defend himself to utmost.
Has pleasant recollections of his relations with JBI.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 18 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7445 |
To J. B. Innes 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s health has been poor.
Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.
In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7455 |
To J. B. Innes 29 May [1871]
Summary
Not surprised that JBI does not agree with him. Many professed naturalists do not. But there has been a great change since publication of Origin, and CD believes agreement on man will come soon, "as far as his corporeal frame is concerned".
Horsman has not been heard from.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 29 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7776 |
To J. B. Innes 10 May [1875]
Summary
On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.
Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 10 May [1875] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9975 |
From J. B. Innes 20 October 1877
Summary
JBI reports that the editor of Journal of Horticulture has identified the tree at Loch Carron as Sambucus racemosa, red-berried elder.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11194 |
From J. B. Innes 1 December 1878
Summary
JBI on CD’s integrity and the separateness of science and religion.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768 |
From J. B. Innes 14 July 1879
Summary
Reports finding a wood pigeon’s nest on the ground, though woods are nearby.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12157 |
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 |
Innes, J. B. | (38) |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Innes, J. B. | (36) |