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To John Innes 18 July [1860]
Summary
Henrietta’s illness.
CD’s resort to [E. W. Lane’s] water-cure.
Other family news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 18 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2870 |
To John Innes 6 September [1860]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.
Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".
Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2907 |
To John Innes 11 September [1860]
Summary
Going to sea-side for Etty’s health.
Asks JBI further questions about a striped donkey he had reported to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2912 |
To John Innes 26 October [1860]
Summary
Etty has had a relapse. "What the end will be, we know not."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 26 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2962 |
To John Innes 28 December [1860]
Summary
News of Etty’s health and of neighbours.
Pleased that JBI likes Origin.
CD never expected to convert people in less than 20 years, though now convinced he is "in the main right". Bishop of Oxford’s review made "splendid fun" of him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3032 |
