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Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. The refutation of Miss Seward is admirable and conclusive.

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Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].

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Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].

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Will try to find an engraving of [Breadsall] Priory.

Offers a photograph of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s house in Derby.

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Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.

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Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].

Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].

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Is gratified if he has helped [with Erasmus Darwin].

Thanks for another consignment of family records.

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Sends a book on shorthand

and a paper, probably by Erasmus Darwin, entitled "Moral and physical hermeneutics", on the subject of temperance.

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Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.

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Can CMCD provide a photograph of Elston, the birthplace of Erasmus Darwin, with permission to have it reproduced in Erasmus Darwin.

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Asks CD about translation of title-page of Kosmos.

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Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

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Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.

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Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.

His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.

Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.

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Thanks for letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.

Sends some information about R. W. Darwin’s residence at Elston; does not plan to include a portrait of him.

Asks the acreage of land at Cleatham.

Offers to send a print of the portrait of himself by W. W. Ouless.

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Has found a pamphlet of 1780 about Charles Darwin [1758–78].

RD’s sister, Violetta, has found some early verses and a MS by Dr Erasmus Darwin.

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Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.

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Describes bearded horses seen on island of Sark.

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CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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Sends Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, some letters, and poems.

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