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Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.

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Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.

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Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.

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Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].

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John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.

Hopes CD will visit again.

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Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.

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More suggestions for the laboratory, including some experiments.

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Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.

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Division of Catherine’s estate.

Arrangements for EAD’s will.

Wishes CD would pay him another visit.

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Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.

Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".

Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].

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Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?

EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.

Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.

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Disposal of Susan’s effects.

Frank and Henry [Parker] are executors.

EAD is bringing away a large packet of CD’s letters from abroad.

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Disposal of Susan’s effects. Legacies to CD’s children. EAD has taken the letters and papers and asked Henry [Parker] to forward the George Richmond pictures of CD and Emma.

Caroline looks "miserably ill".

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Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].

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Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.

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He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.

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C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.

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Discusses plans for CD to visit Cambridge.

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J. J. Sylvester reports George’s fellowship "the most enviable position on earth".

Charles [Parker?] "appears to be ruined".

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Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.