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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

the drawing-room. I suppose my taste of harmonious colours is already deteriorated, for I declare the room begins to look less ugly. I take so much pleasure in the house, I declare I am just like a great overgrown child with a new toy; but then, not like a real child, I long to have a co-partner and possessor. Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood. Saturday, SHREWSBURY (26 Jan. 1839]. My dear Emma, I have ten minutes to write in and I am determined to show you that I think myself of sufficient

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Shrewsbury, was the youngest son of the then Squire of Elston. Children of Dr Robert Waring Darwin (1766 1848) and his wife Susannah Wedgwood (1765 1817). 1. Marianne (1798 1858) m. Dr Henry Parker. 2. Caroline (1800 1888) m. her cousin Josiah Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place. 3. Susan (1803 1866) unmarried. 4. Erasmus Alvey (1804 1881) unmarried. 5. Charles Robert (1809 1882) m. his cousin Emma Wedgwood. 6. Catherine (1810 1866) m., late in life, Rev. Charles Langton. Charlotte Wedgwood was his

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Le Journal de Gen ve. No paper is published but his own, Le Constitutionnel. There is no government whatever but what is concentrated in his own hand as he is a Being without one moral sentiment, no one feels secure. My dear Emma, how I do love you when you talk of your children! you never speak so prettily as then. You are poetic without knowing it, which is the prettiest poetry of all. The drop of water on the cabbage-leaf is delicious. Emma [Allen] cried out on the charms of Georgey1, and

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difficult to hope now. But I 1 Elizabeth and Charlotte are the two elder girls. Jos, Frank, Fanny, and Emma would be those who are more good than agreeable. As Emma speaks about this time with surprise of his shaking hands with her, it is probable that he did not give them much opening to be agreeable. must add that in her youth and middle age she had plenty of courage and hopefulness, indeed she was courageous to the point of rashness in some of her happy-go-lucky arrangements. Catharine Allen

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, Marianne a beauty and Georgina very piquant and attractive. Jessie, Emma, and Fanny Allen were also staying there to be a support and help to their sister, Mrs Drewe. Emma Allen to her niece Elizabeth Wedgwood. PISA, Jan. 16th [1817]. Poor Caroline has much more of fear than hope about them [her dying children], and at times her spirits give way very much, but in general her natural good spirits shew themselves, and William Clifford is delighted with what he calls her merry looks. Marianne and

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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

the room no one must speak so that he did not hear, and she would describe how he would say, Hm, hm, what is Emma saying? I remember her telling us that a boy was a naturally uncongenial animal to the Doctor. He was cautious, even timid as to bodily dangers, though with great moral fearlessness, and the adventuresomeness and untidiness of a boy were equally distasteful to him. No son however could have been more devoted and more reverent than our father. Indeed, when he said, My father thought or

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a bottle of physick to Llewis's child without mentioning what physick it was to be. There is come a bottle from Mr Turner's which, as nobody owns, I conclude to be the one, and I shall venture to send it if I hear from Mr Turner that it is made from a prescription that is in your drawer . In the letters there are frequent allusions to Elizabeth's doctoring of the poor people and children, and it is impossible to help thinking that they 1 Anne and Emma Caldwell, now Mrs Marsh and Mrs Henry

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conduct. His uncle Jos occasionally talked of representing to him that they sometimes wanted to be alone, but was too kind-hearted and long-suffering ever to act on his intentions. However by 1833 these visits had come to an end, I think through some representation of his brother Robert, and Allen had succeeded in breaking the iron chain of habit. Emma Wedgwood writes in that year: Nothing can be more modest than he is; indeed I wish he would come in sometimes without being asked. He is so

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Fanny and Emma back with her sister Jessie to spend eight months at Geneva. It was an effort to part with them, but she thinks it will be good for the girls, they wish it, and it will soften the parting for Jessie. Madame Sismondi also has her nephew Edward Drewe, a boy of 21, to convoy out. He had left Oxford, but he was not intended for any profession, being the heir-expectant of Grange, the Devonshire estate, then in the possession of an uncle 79 years old. Bessy is a little afraid her sister Mrs

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unreasonable distance to see that chien de visage, I remain, my dear Jos, Your affectionate E. W. The four travellers, Mme Sismondi, Fanny and Emma Wedgwood, and Edward Drewe, reached Calais on 25th Nov. 1826. Emma writes that day to her mother: Aunt Jessie told us that she did not know how she could have borne leaving England if we had not gone with her, but now she did not mind. Edward is very happy running about looking at carriages and seeing about passports. Luckily everybody here speaks English We

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because she was in low spirits. Good bye my dearest Elizabeth, our best loves to all of you, dear Papa, Mamma and everybody. Your affectionate sister, Emma w. I heard that Aunt Sarah has not got into her new house yet. Will you give her my best love? Her words about the expressive playing of her master as if he was mad are delightfully characteristic. She always kept the same horror of any exaggeration of feeling. Her wonder as to what Tony will do without her to whip him and starve him, makes

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a perfect ecstasy. He was a clergyman but had at that time no living. He had been tutor in Lord Craven's family. The Hensleigh Wedgwoods had a very short honeymoon. Emma Wedgwood staid on in London till after their return, perhaps partly to help in buying Charlotte's trousseau. Emma Wedgwood to her sister Elisabeth. [LONDON], Jan. 27, 1832. Fanny is very pleasant and open in telling one how happy she is, and in shewing her fondness for Hensleigh, which she does in a nice, playful manner. After

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unluckily he did not hear, and Hensleigh could not remember what she said. We had a very pleasant evening. I never saw anything prettier than Snow dancing in a pink silk frock Marianne [Thornton] brought for her to try; she dances so very gracefully and so unconsciously of all our looking and laughing Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, Friday, Ap. II [1835]. We have had visits here from the Franks and Harrys, Susan Darwin, and the Hollands, so that I have not been at all solitary

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and to each of you. Yours dear little Emoo, Most affectionately, F. ALLEN. In the autumn of this year Emma was three months away from home, paying visits to the John Wedgwoods at The Hill (near Abergavenny) on her way to and also coming back from Cresselly; and ending up with a week at Onibury, where the Langtons were settled after their return from 8 or 9 months spent in Madeira. They had gone there for the sake of Charles Langton's health, which had given cause for anxiety in the autumn of

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Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. [GOWER STREET], Monday, April 8 [1839]. On Friday we went to hear the Messiah at Exeter Hall, and though we were half-an-hour before it began, there was no place vacant but the very back rows, which were a great deal too far off even for the choruses. Braham sang, but I had rather not hear him, it is such forcing and shouting. I don't know whether Charles's musical taste is getting too refined for Handel, but he did not admire it as much as he used

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articles with you or send them by Elizabeth. Ever yours, my dear Jos, E. W. Elizabeth went up to be with Emma for the birth of her first child, which took place on Dec. 27th, 1839. Their mother writes: MAER HALL, December 28, 1839. My dear Elizabeth, I received your letter of good news yesterday with great joy. It cost me a good cry, but such tears are precious and I was very happy while shedding them. Remember my love and blessing to both parents of the welcome stranger, who will, I hope, be

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CHAPTER V. 1843 1845. The death of John Allen and of Josiah Wedgwood The aunts' admiration for Jos's character Harry and John Hensleigh Allen Our nurse Brodie Henrietta Darwin born Sept. 25, 1843 Charles at Shrewsbury Fanny Hensleigh's hospitality Madame Sismondi at Down, on her way to Ch ne A visit to Combe Florey Emma at Maer A breakfast party at Samuel Rogers' Jessie Sismondi's accident at Paris George Darwin born July 9th, 1845 Charles describes their improvements at Down 56 83 CHAPTER VI

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CHAPTER II. 1840 1842. Charles much out of health, he visits Shrewsbury The Sismondis at Gower Street and Tenby Miss Edgeworth thinks Emma Darwin like her mother The Charles Darwins talk of leaving London Emma's second child, Anne Elizabeth, born Erasmus and Miss Martineau Charles and Doddy at Shrewsbury Sismondi's fatal illness begins Edward Allen and his running away from school Charlotte Langton's baby, Edmund, born. Emma Darwin to her aunt Madame Sismondi. 12, UPPER GOWER STREET, Feb. 7

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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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CHAPTER III. 1842. A Revolution at Geneva Taking children to the pantomime Charles Darwin meets Humboldt He visits Shrewsbury Elizabeth with Emma at Gower Street Emma at Maer Sismondi cannot finish his History He dies June 25, 1842 Jessie comes to live at Tenby. SISMONDI was now seriously ill and Jessie's life was full of sadness and anxiety. Her deafness interfered with her enjoyment of society, and she, as well as Sismondi, was miserable at the revolution which broke out in Geneva. Finding

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the Characters of Shakespeare. The Archbishop called it one of the ablest critical works that ever appeared. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. [DOWN], Friday night [probably February, 1845]. My dear Emma, I shall write my Babbiana to-night instead of before breakfast. It is really wonderful how good and quiet the children have been, sitting quite still during two or three visits, conversing about everything and much about you and your return. When I said I shall jump for joy when I hear the dinner

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Madame Sismondi to her niece Elizabeth Wedgwood. 27 Aug. 1847. I feel disposed to write to you to-day, dearest, because my head is full of you and of your works, which I believe I was one of the first to think romantic. Let me make the amende honorable. What you have done at Caldy1 prospers and bears fruit more abundantly than I could have believed possible. Yesterday Emma [Allen] persuaded me to lay my oldness aside, and make one of a boat party to Caldy with John Allen2 (School Commissioner

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Grignan. Fanny Allen writes: Are you taking up Mme de S vign 's letters? Chateau Grignan is so vividly before me that I must begin them again, contenting myself with only two or three before breakfast. That is the way to enjoy the book. That view from the garden at Mont limar often rises up to my mind, with le Mont Ventoux in the distance. Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Darwin. Tuesday, 8th Feb. [1853]. I should like to have looked in on your party of 32 very much. So many merry children would

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? But then he added, he has got industry, and that is by far the most important of all. Mamma desires that you will read the chapters very well; and the dear old mammy must be obeyed It appears there was again talk of our going to Tenby early in 1856. Fanny Allen writes that she cannot be away when her dear little Emma comes, and mentions Dr Dyster's delight at the thought of having C. Darwin here. He met him somewhere and was like many others enchanted with him. But this scheme had to be given up

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, when I had lost the company of beloved ones. Think of Emma D. being, after long deliberation, on the side of the Federals, whom I detest with all the fire that is left me! their hypocrisy respecting slavery is most odious, and their treatment of the poor negroes atrocious. The following is written in a tiny hand on a little sheet of paper 3 x 2 : Emma Darwin to her son Leonard at school. DOWN, BROMLEV, KENT, Nov. 13, 1863. My dear Lenny, You cannot write as small as this I know. It is done with

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very grand. Then we came home, bringing Amy with us, and parting with Lucy again to go straight home to L. H. P. from London. Good-bye, dearest Aunt F. Yours, E. D. Charles is horribly tired of his big book, and thinks nobody ever wrote so badly before; it requires so much correction. 1 Her brother Frank's daughter, married to Clarke Hawkshaw. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday [Summer, 1867]. I succeeded in going to Ravensbourne, and it was pleasant. I took the Lancashire

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Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. DOWN, Thursday [Ap. 2, 1868]. My dear Eliz., I came home yesterday with Ch. alone. I enjoyed the quiet and poking about, and the cat's welcome and walking in the new walk in the field. Your servants are charming, and I am so glad you have such a nice set. We had a pleasant party at luncheon on Sunday (Mrs Miles made such elegant luncheons I was quite proud of them); Mr Farrer [afterwards Lord F.] and the Godfrey Lushingtons. There was une tr s

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Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Wednesday [August, 1868]. I must go back to our last day at Freshwater. Mrs Cameron very good-naturedly took me and Lizzy to call on Mrs Tennyson. It was pouring with rain, and the more it rained the slower we walked, so when we got there we left our dripping cloaks in the hall. Mr Tennyson brought in a bottle of light wine and gave us each a glass to correct the wet. Mrs T. is an invalid, and very pleasing and gracious. After sitting a reasonable

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much playing from Mrs Lushington, who used to delight my father with her grace, wit, and sweetness. In June we were in London, and it was at Mrs Lushington's house I met Mr R. B. Litchfield, to whom I became engaged this summer. Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. QUEEN ANNE ST., June, 1871. To-day we had a more thorough Yankee than the one at Down. He is a sort of jackal of Appleton the publisher, and so amusing we all had great difficulty in avoiding laughing, and did not dare to look

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dogs a very long walk, and he gave a little education to Bran and made him learn to come when he is called. We put Miss I. into No. 4 for the present. After a time I shall turn her out, and shall so enjoy making it nice and comfortable for you. Mr and A. called. A. never knows when to have done with anything. She got upon St Moritz and was quite endless. Now nobody can say that of me. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. Down, Thursday [Oct. 5, 1871]. My dearest Body, I only wrote a

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far from finished. I congratulate you with all my heart at having so noble a husband. What an admirable address, and how well written. Even YOU, Miss Rhadamanthus1, could not have improved a word. It is as superior to all ordinary addresses, as one of the old Buccaneer voyages are to modern travels. Good-bye, dearest; keep quiet. Good-bye. Yours affect, C. DARWIN. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. Nov. 10th [1871]. My dear Emma, You must be back now in your own nest! I guess. I had a most

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praise which can be bestowed on my part. Yours affectionately, C. DARWIN. Send me a line in answer I am dead tired. Woolners come on Sunday. I believe we shall ask S. Butler, author of Erewhon, and grandson of Dr Butler, my old master. The following is written after the first anniversary of our wedding-day. Emma Darwin to R. B. Litchfield. Wednesday [Sept. 1872]. My dear Richard, It was very nice of you to write to me. Although we Wedgwoods are so bad about anniversaries, I should have thought of

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Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. [HOPEDENE, 1876.] F. and I rushed out to meet Leo at 4 o'clock and gave him a very flouting reception. However the real man [William] did come about 6, driving with two horses from Guildford, and not unreasonably tired. It is delightful to see him this morning sitting so comf. at his knitting and I feel much more reassured about him. He has found Horace the best of secretaries and nurses. On coming we settled ourselves and arranged everything in

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deal, my father especially enjoying a lunch in Frank Balfour's rooms, and my mother going to Trinity Chapel to hear the organ. She writes: I went to the organ-loft and Mr Stanford shewed the effect of stops, etc. (my bed is quite comf.). This casual style is very characteristic but why the ideas thus presented themselves to her no mortal man can tell. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. Summer, 1880. There were the most extraordinary thunder clouds on Friday which all dispersed. F. has no proof sheets

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entirely recovered, and died on November 7th, 1880, at the age of 87. Her little bent figure had been a familiar sight as she came into the drawing-room leaning on her stick and followed by her dog Tony. The first question would always be, Where is Emma? My mother would then put by whatever she was doing in order to go to her. This was sometimes difficult, but she never let any sense of hurry appear and was always ready to give her a warm and equable welcome. She shared in all her interests and made

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buried in Down churchyard. Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ida. DOWN, Monday [Aug. 29th, 1881]. It will be very delightful to us to have you here my dear child, and I hope you will come before the funeral. I don't know any that we shall have in the house, but if we had we have plenty of room for you. I am sure it must be a happy thought to you that he knew how much you loved him, or rather that he loved you (for I don't think he thought much about other people's affection he knew of his own

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now to look back upon. She lived through her desolation alone, and she wished not to be thought about or considered, but to be left to rebuild her life as best she could and to think over her precious past. This wish for obscurity and oblivion came out in her eager desire to get the first sight of her neighbours over, and then, as she said, they will not think about me any more. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. Friday. My dearest Leo, It is always easier to write than to speak, and so, though I

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Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ida. DOWN, Monday, July 24 [1882]. My dear Ida, We have just had G.'s telegram with the terrible news about F. Balfour. Few or none out of his family will feel it so deeply as Horace and you and George. His scientific loss is very great; but I feel so much more his personal loss, such an entirely high-minded and single-minded man a friend that will not be supplied . The winters at Down in the great empty house would have been lonely for my mother and Bessy

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[1884]. The Hookers' visit has been very pleasant. William came late on Friday night. He and Sir J. had a great deal of talk and also with Frank about the Life. Sir J. pleased me last night by saying: The boys are not a bit altered just as nice as they were at Down. I am trying not to feel as if we were going to Down tomorrow. I made William wheel me to the end of the walk and we sat some time. He is charmed with the place. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. CAMBRIDGE, Friday [1884?]. Theo. and

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delightful . Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. DOWN [Summer 1885]. On Tuesday we had the s for tea. She is pleasant and with some fun in her. I am sure he is a very good stepfather, but what a bore it would be to marry four little boys. I am reading a short tude of Scherer (a Genevese I think) on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it. He [Goethe] had the aim of avoiding all agitations or sorrow, which was deeply selfish. Frank has entirely won Dicky's affections, and lets him

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the lime trees has been my utmost exertion. The poor flowers have not grown an inch, but look gay and full of flower I am studying Dicky my new dog, and I am afraid he has no heart and hardly any conscience, but I shall be content if he is fond of me, otherwise I will return him to his foster-mother. He is so pretty that I shall have no difficulty in getting a good place for him. I hope your poor puppy will soon be happier. Would not Otter sleep with him? Emma Darwin to her son Francis. 1885

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Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. The GROVE, Sunday [? March 1886]. I am in a fever of anxiety that Chamberlain and Trevelyan don't give way, and then I think Gladstone must collapse. I shall be very sorry for him however; to end his political life with such a fiasco, when no doubt he had hopes of doing good. I strongly recommend The Life of Henrietta Kerr a nun. It is curious to compare the mind of a real Catholic and that of a semi-Catholic like Miss Sewell and the step between is very broad

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characteristic bit which charms one. A little mention of me in a letter of [his to] Laura1 sent me to bed with a glow about my heart coming on it unexpectedly. Yours, my clear Frank, E. D. Emma Darwin to Margaret Shaen. THE GROVE, Dec. 20, 1887. My dear Margaret, I wish I could make you feel what a pleasure your letter is to me for many reasons first because you are really better, and I am doctor enough to long to know what the change of your treatment amounts to. I like to think you look back

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Churchill. It was a happy summer at Down with many family visitors and fine, hot weather. Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ida. [DOWN], Sunday. My dear Ida, It will be nice to see you on Wed. The chicks are better than gold, and Maud is as nice to them as if they were her own. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. July 2, 1888. We are lucky to have had two sharp bright days for the Parsons. They are very comfortable and easy and were out a good deal, George and Arthur taking a long

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, and now Hen. DOWN, 19th Sept., 1891. The children were very happy all day out of doors. It was pretty to see Margaret walk up to Dicky on the hard gravel with her naked feet and put her head down on his back to love him. In the course of a few days when you can mark anything of a step forward it would be nice to have a telegram so as to enjoy it a day sooner. DOWN, Sept. 29th, 1891. R.'s good account and your precious little note came together, and made me feel in a glow of happiness. Emma

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Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was consumption, with every care the best Dr (Sir J. Clark), and the best nursing could give. Severn behaved nobly in sacrificing everything to go with Keats (his father knocked him down with indignation at his persisting in going), but it made his fortune as it happened. Emma Darwin to her son George. THE GROVE, April 3, 1892. Your children met Frances here on her birthday the 30th. It was to be celebrated by her using a knife and she

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in Staffordshire after the election. We were surprised and overjoyed at Leonard's unexpected success, and I expressed my feelings with warmth. July 20, 1892. We are highly exalted, but we do not reach your pitch. Leo makes quite a show in the Times leading article. What a glorious account of Chamberlain's speech by R. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. DOWN, July 19th [1892]. My dear Leonard, We got your blessed telegram at 2.45. Laura [Forster] had gone to rest, but charged us to disturb her and

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Darwin.' Lettington [the old gardener] said to L. I don't agree with your politics; but I did not think it was in you to make such a noble speech. Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ida. DOWN, Wed. Aug. 10th [1892]. Monday was the loveliest of days and Hen. and I took a little drive to Keston Common. Yesterday equally detestable (56 ). I am so intensely interested in the debates that I must put myself on stoppages or I shall wear out my eyes. R. collects a little harem of Miss Forrests to play

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to R. You will enjoy a bit of your own home. Oct. 27th, 1895. William and Rachel came yesterday. To-day we have the Georges and the Franks to dinner and a goose, and toasted cheese which is de rigueur for Bernard. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. CAMBRIDGE, October [1895?]. I think there must be interesting things to see at Portsmouth, but I daresay you will sit at home and be thankful, as Dr Darwin used to say all old people ought to do. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. Nov. 15th

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love to you all. I am, Your affectionate and dutiful son, JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. During the first few years of marriage they lived apparently at Little Etruria, a house near Etruria Hall which had been built for Bentley, his father's partner. Etruria was quite a rural spot in those old days. Emma Allen thus described it some ten years later: I spent Saturday morning in walking with John [Wedgwood] over the works, which gratified me very much. I think Etruria [Hall] altogether a very nice place, much too