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Has made will. Discusses financial arrangements and asks whether CD would like a mortgage.

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Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.

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Sends CD a Cardigan Jacket, ‘one of the most delightful inventions of the age’.

Discusses the Duke of Argyll.

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Thanks WED for a present.

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].

Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].

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Sends Oliver’s list of references on Adoxa.

Baby now out of trouble.

Pleased with Paris exhibition.

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Suggests his father lend him the money to pay WED’s succession duty and thereby secure a discount.

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Sends WED £200.

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Thanks CD for £200 and discusses meeting in London at the beginning of December.

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Is working at dimorphic plants;

is astonished at WED’s labour.

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Action of facial muscles at onset of crying.

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Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.

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Crying in babies.

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Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.

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Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.

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Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.

Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.

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Blushing in boys blind from birth. Has got information from R. H. Blair, the principal of a college for the blind.

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Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.

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Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.

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Describes the action of facial muscles at the onset of crying as observed by Langstaff.