From J. B. Innes 20 October 1869
Summary
Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.
Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6948 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s paper on CD. Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage. …
- … in acquiring a part of the land for a parsonage (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from …
- … on Powell’s attempts to raise money for a parsonage, see the letter from John Lubbock, 20 …
- … the rash act he will surely build a parsonage £ 200 ready & buy land £ 700 from Eccles …
From J. B. Innes 29 November 1880
Summary
Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12874 |
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
To J. B. Innes 18 October 1869
Summary
CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.
Gives Down news.
R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.
CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6942 |
From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5819 |
From John Brodie Innes 15 October 1869
Summary
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6939 |
From J. B. Innes 4 September [1863]
Summary
Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].
Family news.
Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4290 |
To J. B. Innes 20 January [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.
George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;
Henrietta has been poorly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5792 |
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- … to acquire the property in 1860 as a parsonage. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. …
From J. B. Innes 4 December 1868
Summary
Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6492 |
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- … long before now we should have got a good Parsonage built on some good site, (the site has …
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| Innes, J. B. |
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … ‘I find I steadily have a distant prospect of a very quiet parsonage, & I can see it even …
- … last letter that you still look forward to the horrid little parsonage in the desert. I was …
- … of a resident curate and the maintenance of a local parsonage. The right to appoint was known as an …
- … system. The living was comparatively small, and the local parsonage had been sold. In fact, some …
- … had property of his own in the village, and did not need a parsonage. When he left the village for …
- … the unsuccessful attempts to arrange the construction of a parsonage, and with Innes’s approval the …
