EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.

He has now been matriculated.

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.

Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.

Will be home in three weeks.

Shrewsbury news.

Glad he likes Edinburgh.

They have been going to plays performed by a travelling company he knows.

A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins': Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.