RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1863]. Letter to William Erasmus Darwin. CUL-DAR210.6.114. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR210.6 contains correspondence of William Erasmus Darwin and family correspondence (1851-1896).
Anthony Trollope. Tales of all countries, ser. 1, 1861, ser. 2, 1863.
Down, Bromley
Monday [September to October 1863]
My dear William
As mama is going to write this is only a scrap to thank you for your two letters which we were very glad to get which arrived just after I had despatched my laconic epistle. I had been
busy & as I said before I didn't think you were too virtuous yourself or I wouldn't have been so short & scant of breadth as [illeg] says.
The boys are staying all Tuesday evening which is very jolly. They spend the most of their day in eating pears & walnuts listening
to Trollop tales of old countries wh. is a capital book. It is wonderful how much of their company Papa stands — I think it shows his head must be much stronger. He had escaped sickness these 4 nights now & had good days between.
goodbye dear W.
yours
H.E.D
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