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CD is sorry he bothered GHD about the solicitor, but he boils with indignation to this day when he remembers how rudely he was treated by Mr Salt’s firm in London [40 years earlier].

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The merchants suggest that CD keep the wine and return it if more is corked.

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Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.

Sorry about the proof-sheets.

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Gives an account of the reception of his paper at York [BAAS meeting].

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Has been visiting Anthony Rich, who persists in his intention to leave his property to CD despite the large fortune left by Erasmus. It is now all the more necessary for CD to arrange his own will.

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Has found the missing packet of forks, which he will send or take to Down.

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Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.

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Has sent the inscription [for E. A. Darwin’s gravestone]. If CD approves, will he forward it to G. S. ffinden [Vicar of Downe Parish] and William [Darwin].

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Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.

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Sends an agreement for his signature and forwarding to Patterson & Bloxham.

Hears that James Challis [Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge] is on the point of death. Believes he has a good chance to succeed him; sends a list of the electors.

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Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.

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Writes of Challis’ health

and of other matters of family interest.

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Thinks William Thomson will support him [for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge].

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Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]

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Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.

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Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.

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Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.

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Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

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Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.

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Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.

Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.