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Thanks for two pamphlets;

Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.

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Details about tithes.

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Asks CD to sign his guarantee.

Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.

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EAD thinks it a pity if CD does not go to Cambridge, but it will be very pleasant for them to be together at Edinburgh, where they should go as soon as possible and read. EAD is getting "case-hardened" in anatomy.

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Wants to sell some shares held in trust by EAD and Josiah Wedgwood [III].

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Notes on the shoveller, taken from John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain [1862–73].

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Writes concerning marriage trust.

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Asks CD to send him some books on physiology and natural history from the family library.

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Asks EAD to forward a message of Anne’s improved state to Down.

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Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.

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Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].

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Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.

Will be home in three weeks.

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Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.

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Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.

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EAD will forward a book and letter to CD; thanks JSH for sending CD’s letters.

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Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.

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Calculations relating to bees’ cells.

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Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.

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Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.

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Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]