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Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.

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Searching for the right gardener.

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JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.

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Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]

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Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].

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Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.

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CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]

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Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.

Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.

Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.

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Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].

During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.

"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."

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Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.

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E. Krause has sent his corrected proofs with suggestions and questions.

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Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.

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Thanks AD-P for part three of his Atlas [see 11039].

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JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.

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John Murray could supply clichés of two woodcuts at a trifling cost.

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Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].

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Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.

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The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].

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How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.

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DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.