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He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.

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Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".

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Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.

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CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

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Observations of leaf movement at Würzburg Botanic Garden.

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Notes on movements of Mimosa pudica.

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Experiments on sensitive plants.

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Notes on the position of one of the fallen stones [at Stonehenge].

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Reports observations on day and night movement in Porlieria.

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Describes her and W. E. Darwin’s honeymoon.

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Cancelled: enclosures to DCP-LETT-869. List of recent and fossil mammalian species of Brazil.

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Cancelled: enclosures to DCP-LETT-869. List of fossil Mammalia from the caverns of Minas Gerais purchased by the British Museum from Claussen.

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[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).

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Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".

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Encloses two photos [missing].