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The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.

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CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.

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Asks FW to come over to feel his daughter’s pulse.

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Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.

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They are impatient for CD’s arrival.

EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".

CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.

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Tells of the pleasure that CD’s visit gave the family.

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Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].

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Arrangements for leaving Malvern after death of Anne.

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Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.

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Is glad he returned home to be with Emma, and is grateful to Fanny for following Anne to the grave.

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Family matters; CD’s feelings on death of FW’s son [James Mackintosh Wedgwood, 1834–64].

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Tells of the burial of Anne.

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Is flattered by a proposal that he undertake some reviewing work, but has many years’ work in prospect on his present book on species and varieties.

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Thoughts after the death of Anne.

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A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.

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Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.