To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
From John Brodie Innes 29 August [1863]
Summary
Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.
Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.
Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4283 |
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 |
From J. B. Innes 17 December [1863]
Summary
Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4357 |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |