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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

fit to travel home I know not. I most sincerely hope that Mrs. Huxley keeps up pretty well. The work which most men have to do is a blessing to them in such cases as yours. God bless you. Sir H. Holland came here to see her, and was wonderfully kind. Letter 351. TO C. LYELL. Down, November 20th [1860]. I quite agree in admiration of Forbes' Essay,1 yet, on my life, I think it has done, in some respects, as much mischief as good. Those who believe in vast continental extensions will never

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

glad to see in a newspaper that Murray sold 4,000. What a sale! I am now working on cultivated plants, and rather like my work; but I am horribly afraid I make the rashest remarks on value of differences. I trust to a sort of instinct, and, God knows, can seldom give any reason for my remarks. Lord, in what a medley the origin of cultivated plants is. I have been reading on strawberries, and I can find hardly two botanists agree what are the wild forms; but I pick out of horticultural books

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

approve of my book; I thought every mortal man would find the details very tedious, and have often repented of giving so many. You will find pangenesis stiff reading, and I fear will shake your head in disapproval. Wallace sticks up for the great god Pan like a man. The fertility of hybrid canaries would be a fine subject for careful investigation. Letter 439. TO J. JENNER WEIR. Down, April 4th [1868]. I read over your last ten (!) letters this morning, and made an index of their contents for

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

. As far as external form is concerned, Eozoon shows how difficult it is to distinguish between organised and inorganised bodies. If it is ever found that life can originate on this world, the vital phenomena will come under some general law of nature. Whether the existence of a conscious God can be proved from the existence of the so-called laws of nature (i.e., fixed sequence of events) is a perplexing subject, on which I have often thought, but cannot see my way clearly. If you have not read

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

done you some good. I only speak honest truth when I say that I was overflowing with joy when I saw you, and saw you in the midst of a dear family party, and solaced at every turn by the loving care of a dear wife and daughters. How different from my position-that of a very old man, living in cheerless solitude! May god help and cheer you 1. The quotation in Lyell's Principles, Edition X., Volume II., page 484, is from M. Gaudry's Animaux Fossiles de Pikermi, 1866, page 34: In how different a

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

your health and strength. With respect to the great subject to which you refer in your P.S., I always try to banish it from my mind as insoluble; but if I were circumstanced as you are, no doubt it would recur in the dead of the night with painful force. Many persons seem to make themselves quite easy about immortality1 and the existence of a personal God, by intuition; and I suppose that I must differ from such persons, for I do not feel any innate conviction on any such points. We returned home

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

is much stronger and truer than public. As Lyell wrote various other books and memoirs, I have some little doubt about the Principles of Geology. People here do not like your enduring value : it sounds almost an anticlimax. They do not much like my last (or endure) as long as science lasts. If one reads a sentence often enough, it always becomes odious. God help you. Letter 574. TO OSWALD HEER.1 Down, March 8th [1875]. I thank you for your very kind and deeply interesting letter of March 1st

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

just been looking at Lindley's list in the Vegetable Kingdom, and I cannot resist one or two of his great division of Arethuseae, which includes Vanilla. And as I know so well the Ophreae, I should like (God forgive me) any one of the Satyriadae, Disidae and Corycidae. I fear my long lucubrations will have wearied you, but it has amused me to write, so forgive me. Letter 601. TO J.D. HOOKER. [Part of the following letter is published in the Life and Letters, the remainder, with the omission of

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

of the labellum being always an organ compounded of one petal and two petaloid stamens. That is to say, it leaves it open for a critic to assert that the vessels which enter the sides of the labellum are lateral vessels of the petal and do not necessarily represent petaloid stamens. In the sequel he gives a satisfactory answer to the supposed objector.] Down, November 10th, [1861]. For the love of God help me. I believe all my work (about a fortnight) is useless. Look at this accursed diagram

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

what they call a Clematis, evidently disbelieving it. So I put a little twig to the peduncle, and the next day my gardener said, You see it is a Clematis, for it feels. That's the way we make out plants at Down. My dear old friend, God bless you! 1. In a letter to Scott (dated June 11th) Darwin warns him to keep his views pretty quiet, and quotes Hooker's opinion that if it is known that you agree at all with my views on species it is enough to make you unpopular in Edinburgh. [page 331

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

best observer I ever came across); for his modesty, at least in correspondence; and there is something high-minded in his determination not to receive money from me. I shall ask him whether he can get a good character for probity and sobriety, and whether he can get aid from his relations for his voyage out. I will help, and, if necessary, pay the whole voyage, and give him enough to support him for some weeks at Calcutta. I will write when I hear from him. God bless you; you, who are so

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

Salsola kali, a var. of Salicornia, one species of Suaeda, Euphorbia peplis, Lathyrus maritimus, Eryngium maritimum, were all glaucous and seaside plants. It is very improbable that you have any of these or of foreigners with the same attributes. God forgive me: I hope that I have not bored you greatly. [page 412

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

delighted to hear, and with surprise, that you care about old Erasmus D. God only knows what I shall make of his life it is such new kind of work to me.1 Thanks for case of sleeping Crotalaria new to me. I quite agree to every word you say about Ball's lecture2 it is, as you say, like Sir W. Thomson's meteorite.3 It is really a pity; it is enough to make Geographical Distribution ridiculous in the eyes of the world. Frank will be interested about the Auriculas4; I never attended to this plant

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

very confused and forgot a word, which on subsequent reflection I think was probably reversionary ) he implied that there was a chance, whether good or bad I know not, of his becoming possessed of some other property, and he finished by saying distinctly, I will bequeath this to Huxley. What the amount may be (I fear not large), and what the chance may be, God only knows; and one cannot cross-examine a man about his will. He did not bind me to secrecy, so I think I am justified in telling you

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

respect to the Origin, something to the effect that the higher law of Providential Arrangement should always be stated. But astronomers do not state that God directs the course of each comet and planet. The view that each variation has been providentially arranged seems to me to make Natural Selection entirely superfluous, and indeed takes the whole case of the appearance of new species out of the range of science. But what makes me most object to Asa Gray's view is the study of the extreme

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

a very different value indeed from that of the hypothesis...A great naturalist, who was still a friend of Mr. Darwin, once said to him (Dr. Lankester), 'The mistake is, that Darwin has dealt with origin. Why did he not put his facts before us, and let them rest?' Another speaker, the Rt. Hon. J.R. Napier, remarked: I am going to speak closely to the question. If the hypothesis is put forward to contradict facts, and the averments are contrary to the Word of God, I say that it is not a logical

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

about the varieties of tobacco? My God, is not the case difficult enough, without its being, as I must think, falsely made more difficult? I believe it is my own fault-my d-d candour: I ought to have made ten times more fuss about these most careful experiments. I did put it stronger in the third edition of the Origin. If you have a new edition, do consider your second geological section: I do not dispute the truth of your statement; but I maintain that in almost every case the gravel would

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

prince gained popularity by outliving certain abnormal changes in his blood, and where on the occasion of his recovery providential aid and natural causation were unitedly recognised by a thanksgiving to God and a baronetcy to the doctor. The passage on Toryism is on page 395, where Mr. Spencer, with his accustomed tolerance, writes: The desirable thing is that a growth of ideas and feelings tending to produce modification shall be joined with a continuance of ideas and feelings tending to

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

I am glad that he is cautious about Naudin's view,1 for I cannot think that it will hold. The tendency of hybrids to revert to either parent is part of a wider law (which I am fully convinced that I can show experimentally), namely, that crossing races as well as species tends to bring back characters which existed in progenitors hundreds and thousands of generations ago. Why this should be so, God knows. But Naudin's view throws no light, that I can see, on this reversion of long-lost

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

, peloric forms of, i. 219; ii. 298. Gnaphalium, i. 47. Gneiss, Darwin on, ii. 206. God, Darwin on existence of personal, ii. 171, 237. Godron, on Aegilops, ii. 285. Godron's Flora of France, i. 100, 421. Goethe, Darwin's reference to, i. 317; Owen on, i. 246. Goldfinch, difference in beaks of male and female, ii. 66, 67. Gongora, ii. 315; and Acropera, ii. 282; Darwin on, ii. 313, 318; G. fusca (see Acropera luteola), ii. 280; G. galeata (see A. Loddigesii), ii. 280. Gondwana Land, ii. 15, 16. Goodenia

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A421 Periodical contribution: Meinertsen, H. P. 1903. Skabelsen. Hoejskolebladet: 29-31. Text Image

Fejltagelse opgivet til 2 Kr. 25 Øre,medens den kun koster 1 Kr. 25 Øre. Idet viretter denne Fejl, bruger vi Lejligheden til igen atanbefale Bogen. Den er lige god, fordi ogsaa Julener forbi denne Gang. Indhold. Det ny Aar 1903. Af Jacob Appel. — Nedfaren til de dødes Eige. Af i. — Talerstolen paaSkamlingsbanken. Af Johannes Clausen. (Med Billede.) — Paa fremmed Grund. Digte af O. G. Molbech. 9.— Som man raaber i Skov — Af Jens Skytte. — Fra Boghylden. Udgivet og redigeret af Konrad Jørgensen, Kolding

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

4 o'clock. She has taken two spoonfuls of tea, and no sickness, thank God. I find Fanny an infinite comfort. 5 o'clock. Just the same. I will write before late post if Dr G. comes. My dearest, C. D. Emma Darwin to Charles Darwin. [DOWN], Saturday, 19th April [1851]. The [telegraphic] message is just arrived. What happiness! How I do thank God! but I will not be too hopeful. I was in the garden looking at my poor darling's little garden to find a flower of hers when Griffiths drove up. The

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F1552.1 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

written in 1837. They were roughly, almost illegibly, jotted down on scraps of paper and perhaps hardly written in earnest. Among the advantages are: Children (if it please God) constant companion ( friend in old age) charms of music female chit-chat. Among the disadvantages: Terrible loss of time, if many children forced to gain one's bread, fighting about no society. But he continues, What is the use of working without sympathy from near and dear friends? Who are near and dear friends to the

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

for you. Without you when sick I feel most desolate. I almost doubt whether I shall be able to travel on Monday; but I can write no more now. Oh Mammy, I do long to be with you and under your protection for then I feel safe. God bless you. C. D. Thank my dear Etty for her nice little letter and give my love to all our dear children, whom I shall be so glad to see again. The following tells of the birth of Francis, my mother's seventh child, on August 16, 1848. Madame Sismondi to her niece

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

always affected by his mind, that she has desired Fanny Hensleigh to go down to Malvern. She depends also on her eye for illness. Pray Heaven their child may be preserved to them! I was full of hope till I saw Charles's postscript. Adieu. I came here yesterday. Emma looks well as to health. She is of course very much overcome at times, but she has no fear that her anxiety should bring on her confinement. The post is going, so God bless you. Affectionately yours, F. ALLEN. The following letters

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F1552.1 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

your imagination and compare it with myself; but still I love the affection that does so misrepresent me and would not lose it for worlds. I have been reading a good deal about the doctrine of original sin and the being born again, and I am puzzled. If we are incapable of the least effort of ourselves, and must owe every good thought to the inspiration of God, it seems to put good and evil out of our own power. Is this Calvinism? This is Mrs Tollet's doctrine, and I believe that of most of the

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

make out His nature clearly to our understandings, indeed Christ has told us we cannot, and I am content to wait. But this I feel, that expiation is a want to me. Pardon is not sufficient, and without expiation I cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is a state, not a place the peace of God in one's own heart. Expiation is a necessity to my own heart, and not to God. There are those who have never wilfully sinned, they cannot therefore feel this want. Christ has said, He

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], whom I never saw better or gayer. And your mother too looks beyond my hopes well, and so does everybody. I have nothing to sadden me, and that is saying much for a return to the place of my youth and gaiety and of twelve years of happiness. I regret every day and every hour that passes. May you, my dear Fanny, do the same where you are, for it is a most sweet sorrow as for more, I am far too dissipate-minded to write it, so God bless you. J. SISMONDI. The following is an account of the wedding and

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

speak about you this morning, but was so excessively overcome he was utterly unable; we begged him not to speak as we knew what he would have said; the least emotion or excitement exhausts him so, it is quite dangerous. And the day following, after telling of the peaceful death she ends her letter, God comfort you my dearest Charles, you were so beloved by him. My father went down to Shrewsbury, though but little up for the journey, staying the night with Erasmus Darwin in London. Charles

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F1552.1 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

beautiful piece of acting. There is something I think quite charming about her, so much sensibility and a naivet so unaffected I am glad the rides about Etruria are so much prettier than you expected. What tho' it is not so delightful a place as that dear Maer, I have no doubt you will be as happy there, for happiness is like heaven, more a state than a place. I have given you such a dose as to completely tire myself, which I do not fear doing you. God bless my dear Elizabeth, I am ever her

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too much so, to be as engaging as they would be naturally. They are the most affectionate children I have ever met with, and that their little faces express, but I perceive no symptom of genius in either .Give our tender love to my dear Jenny [Wedgwood], Jos, and all I love, which you will find out from all you love yourself, and God for ever bless my own own. 1 H. G. Allen, afterwards Q.C. and M.P., born 1815, John Allen's second son, living at Paskeston near Pembroke, 1903. Mrs Josiah

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Palafox was wife of the famous Don Joseph Palafox immortalized by his heroic defence of Saragossa in 1808 9. earnestly about it; it always gives me a feeling of respect and even something like affection. Mr Vernon contrasts well with Captain Elton. He is the brother of Mrs Hallam, a jolly naval Captain full of gaiety and high spirits, finding his own amusement like a jolly tar. I am not sure even he had not taken too much champagne he was easily pleased. only hoped to God I would not make him talk

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come on now. Who has leisure to listen to the still small voice of justice in the midst of such a turmoil? And what ought this nation to expect at the hand of God but calamities and disgraces as long as we will not hear it, and suffer those daily murders to go on? Fanny has just been reading a little of one of Jeffrey's reviews of Wordsworth, and W. really shewed no small degree of placability in his good fellowship with him last night. In the spring of 1831 Josiah Wedgwood was induced to stand for

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

love much your proofs of it. Miss Martineau was hyper-heroic to refuse a pension; not one in the nation would have been a sou the poorer and many would be the better for every little she had, I take it. I forgot till now that S. asked for a bit of my paper, so God bless thee, my little darling as well as your Charles and Doddy and little one unnamed at least to me. J. S. Why shame on my wife, if she thinks that is the place I asked her to write, in less than a full page it is impossible to me to

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gains of what he produces, however small, so as to have a living interest in the manufactory, but in this very decree I see a blunder by the mauvaise t te of Louis Blanc. He talks of the iniquitous oppression of the work-masters. It is not true, and if it was, it is not for the rulers of the masters as well as workmen to use such language. At a moment when as you say, a little spark kindleth such a blaze how cautiously ought every word to be weighed ! I cannot help thinking the hand of God is

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A427 Periodical contribution: Rasmussen, Vilhelm. 1904. Udviklingslaeren i Folkeskolen. Vor Ungdom: 337-351. Text Image

-Standpunkt. Selv en ung Mand, der skal tage sin Stu- dentereksamen, advares imod at lægge sine egne Meninger for Dagen, hvor der kan blive Anledning dertil, saasom i Dansk Stil. Og de mindre Elever bliver oftest stoppede i Farten, der- som de forsøger at gøre Særmeninger gældende. I den Grad er Tingene vendt paa Hovedet. Men i en virkelig god Skole maa det være Hovedopgaven at bringe Børnene til at tage aaben- lyst Standpunkt uden Frygt for Læreren eller nogen anden Autoritet. At deres Standpunkter

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, July 22, 1815. Jenny is one of the sweetest creatures God ever made, and I thank Him ten thousand times that I have you and her for sisters. I am sure it would be worth going many hundred miles for the sake of a reception from either of you. The furniture in this house is so good; it abounds so with flowers and there is such an air of elegance about it, that you cannot feel that its lovely mistress is misplaced in it. Bessy speaks of her incomparable cheerfulness, and says with her the sun always

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affectionate and attentive behaviour to let me see that you were not angry. Continue my dear Fanny to watch over your own character, with a sincere desire of perfecting it as much as is in your power, and you will make the happiness of all belonging to you. You have very little to do, for God has given you an excellent temper, and a very good understanding. Do not therefore content yourself with a mediocrity of goodness. You are now at a happy time of life when almost everything is in your own power

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Wordsworth and Southey, all three living in the Lake country. Baugh says he has heard from neither of you for the last nine months If you make a long stay abroad, my dear sisters, you will find many vacancies on your return; but I am far from urging my Caroline [Drewe] on this subject, lest it might be better for Marianne and Georgina to stay where they are. God will, I hope, direct her for the best, and remove from her the tendency towards thinking that whatever she does is worst. I wish William

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been terribly in the way during all this secret concoction, and I had a lucky escape of it. God bless you, my dear friend. When you see M. Sismondi will you remember to make him my warmest congratulations, and for the life of you let there be no change in your kindness to your own G. a name, however, so little respectful that I cannot reconcile myself to writing it, though truly glad to hear it once again. Saturday, WHITFIELD. Jessie married Sismondi in April 1819. He was then 46 and she was 42

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Pictet who is to be buried to-morrow. I don't like Madame Simond, but am much pleased with Madame de Candolle, Bossi, Dumont, and Favre2. We scarcely over fall in with any young girls as they are all with their Societies. I suppose there were a doz. young men here last night and only two young women. To-night is the select Thursday evening we expect Mme Constant and Mme de Candolle. God bless you all now at Kingscote. My dearly beloveds', E. W. There are many letters from her husband and the girls

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interested in the abolition of slavery. Jos has exerted himself wonderfully for a man of his retired habits in getting up a County Petition, and has succeeded and it has been presented. We have also got up a local one from the four neighbouring parishes hereabouts; and I hope shall never let the matter rest. There is certainly a great stir in England at this moment. The Clergy and the Methodists have taken it up very warmly, and now that England is awakened I trust in God this enormity will cease. Two

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can hardly forgive its immorality. Nevertheless I should like to read more by the same author, and shall be sorry if indeed she is, as she now feels, exhausted. I have received the last Edinburgh too, and have again and again to thank her [Bessy]. She is much too generous habitually to me, I blush when I receive supernumeraries. If she is one-tenth part as prodigal to others as she is to me, she will not reserve for herself enough even for a ha'porth of snuff, God bless 24 2 [pages] 372 - 37

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best music. The mention of Clara Novello reminds me that when she sang the solo verse of God save the Queen at the opening of the Crystal Palace in 1854, for almost the only time in my life, I saw my mother lose her self-control and sob audibly. Charles Darwin returned from his voyage round the world in Oct. 1836. His father had strongly objected to his going, but added, If you can find any man of common sense who advises you to go, I will give my consent. His uncle Jos was that sensible man

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tell me if it is not sublime at 17 to know so well where and how to fix her happiness. What angelic love is that of sisters! Dear Elizabeth's unselfish rejoicings in your happiness are a proof. That men are the greatest fools that walk the earth is proved in her being still to be asked for. What a wife she would make, what a mother, what a relation in life she is! Give her my tenderest of loves. I cannot but be glad, too, that she remains to her beloved father and mother. May God bless her, and

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

they had orders not to send the linen to the wash till after we were gone. Is not this your very mother? and is it not conspiring against your husband's purse? Give my tender love to her and to your father and my dear Elizabeth. God bless you, my own Emma, and restore your husband to health and the full enjoyment of the happy life before him. Sismondi was much pleased and gratified by all the civility, and indeed more, the kindness, he experienced in London. He was not at all enchanted with

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think a good thing my inclination for the country does not diminish though. Charles is out to-day. He is very busy finishing his book on Coral islands, which he says no human being will ever read, but there is such a rage for geology that I hope better things. Will you give my kindest love to my Uncle Sis? God bless you my dearest Aunt J. Elizabeth Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, May 3rd, 1842. We have got Emma and her children here to-day. She has been so poorly, poor thing, and

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

before she went, was enthusiastic in her admiration of you, in which you know how my father joins. I did not require to be reminded how well, my own dear wife, you have borne your dull life with your poor old sickly complaining husband. Your children will be a greater comfort to you than I ever can be, God bless them and you. Give my love and a very nice kiss to Willy and Annie and poor Budgy, and tell them how much I liked their little notes, which I read aloud to grandpapa. I shall be very

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Charles and the children. It would keep you anxious, and that neither of us could bear to see you. My very kind love to Charles, who I think will get better as we are coming to a pleasanter time of year. God bless you, dearest E., may everything go as smooth with you as is your own mind. Yours tenderly, F. ALLEN. At the end my mother writes, Send me back this nice letter and don't think I take it all for granted either for self or children. I was now six years old, but my memory is not a good

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

think of her frank, cordial manners. I am so thankful for the daguerreotype. I cannot remember ever seeing the dear child naughty. God bless her. We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife. Do what you can to bear up, and think how invariably kind and tender you have been to her. I am in bed, not very well. When I shall return I cannot yet say. My own poor dear dear wife. C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to Charles Darwin. DOWN, Thursday [24 April, 1851]. My dearest, I knew too well what