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Thanks for Listera specimen, which arrived withered from being sent in a wooden box.

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With some hesitation CD’s solicitor advises acceptance of partnership offered to William.

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Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].

"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."

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Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.

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Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

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Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

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Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.

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Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.

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Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.

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Thanks for information about Major Owen’s mortgage.

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CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?

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Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.

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Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.

Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.

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Has been idling and enjoying the scenery.

"At dinner we were all sticking bits of ice together by their points, marvelling at the phenomenon and talking of you."

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Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.

Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.

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Instructions to a book seller.

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Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.

Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.

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Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.

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Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

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Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.