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In 1815 the John Wedgwoods were living at Exeter, where were also Mrs Drewe and her family. Emma and Fanny Allen spent part of their homeless years there with their sisters, Caroline Drewe and Jane Wedgwood. Emma Allen thus describes her sister's house (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
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-humoured, motherly sort of woman, but not strikingly genteel, and she added, Fanny and Emma went very cheerfully, but shed a few tears at parting. The teaching at this school could not have been very enlightened. In French history they never got beyond Charlemagne, as with every new girl the class began again at the beginning with Clovis. Emma was one of the show performers on the piano, and was one day sent for to play to George IVth's Mrs Fitzherbert. All letters to and from the girls were read
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-spelling, as we thought it, of the word plumb in a story about a plumb-pie. Fanny and Emma spent only one year at Mrs Mayer's, though Emma was barely 15 at the end of the time. After this her education was continued under the supervision of her sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte, with occasional masters when opportunities occurred. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Fanny Allen at Geneva. [LONDON] Jan. 22, 1822. ... At dinner we had Mr Whishaw and Mr Vizard, a very pleasant day, but the best part of the
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remember my mother's telling me of these walks on the sandy paths amongst the wild heath and through the fields of Maer, as if they were one of the happy memories of her youth. Emma Wedgwood to her sister Elizabeth. [MAER, March, 1824.] ... Will you get four fine cambrick pocket handkerchiefs and eight common ones for everyday? Then a common printed cotton gown. I do not wish to give more than 10s. for it. I should like a blue, pink, or buff one. If you happen to be in a ribbon shop, will you get 3
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. This affair is another proof of the imprudence of making anything that looks like an apology for what you have done, that bears an unpleasing aspect. An apology ought never to be made but when you are absolutely in the wrong, and are willing to be considered so.... Emma, now 16 years old, was confirmed in the autumn of 1824. Her mother wrote to Elizabeth: As the confirmation will soon take place I think it will be right in Emma to be confirmed, and therefore I hope she will feel no objection. You
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trifling circumstance of not one of the party speaking the language of the country. Tell my dear Jessie that her addition to your former letter to your mother was not thrown away upon me. Nobody can do kind things with so much grace as she does.... Caroline Darwin to Fanny and Emma Wedgwood. 26 May, 1827. MY DEAR FANNY AND EMMA, (I know you like being classed together, and as Charlotte and Eliz. to this day speak of you both as if you were but one, I shall follow their example.) Many thanks for
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old with him as well as his good qualities, and he is as fond as ever of repeating anecdotes of Brooks's: he has however changed the chit-chat of Holland House for that of Woburn, and the names of Scarlett, Brougham, etc., for those of the Russells and the Seymours. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen at Cresselly. MAER, Oct, 31st, 1827. Having just put your letter in the fire, unread by any save Elizabeth and myself, I proceed to answer it, my ever dear Emma.... It is not like my dear
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Since the Genevan visit, Emma, in writing to Jessie Sismondi, expresses herself with greater warmth and expansiveness than is usual with her, and often signs herself your affectionate child. Jessie adopted the phrase and from this time forth generally called Fanny and Emma her children. Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, Sunday [April, 1828]. MY DEAREST AUNT JESSIE, Mamma sent us down your letter some time ago, and we were rejoiced indeed to see your dear handwriting. We did not
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Sismondi to her niece Emma Wedgwood. CH NE, May 21st [1828]. I have received by Edward your pretty stool, my dear little Emma. You cannot imagine the pleasure it gives me, since I have done nothing but lament my folly in having given away the other to a person who cares nothing about me. I confess this you have sent me is still prettier and admirably worked, and I am at last consoled for the loss of the other, though you can give me no consolation for being a fool. One always takes liberties with
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. He has just been buying me a sash and a watch-ribbon to save me the going out, which I never like to do in London except in my coach. After the visit to Clapham, Bessy went to her niece Lady Gifford at Roehampton. While there she had a mysterious seizure from which it was feared at first she would not recover. The anxiety about her illness continued for some time, and they were thankful as soon as she was able to return home. Harry Wedgwood to his sister Emma. 19th June [1829]. MY DEAR EMMA
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luckily by a little juggling between Fanny and Emma, they contrived to let Mrs Meeke in for the last prize. Fanny was entitled to the two first prizes, but it being a law that they were not to go to the same person, Fanny made her election for the second prize, which gave Jessie the first. It is comical enough that even a visitor at Maer should be so successful, as in the case of both Jessie and Miss Acland. As for Fanny and Emma, they are quite dragonesses, but nothing pleased me so much in
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they will not report a word more of his; so now he declares they shall not report at all, and he had the gallery cleared of all the strangers and the reporters amongst them yesterday. It was a most foolish passionate thing to do as the Reporters are sure to gain the day in the end. Aunt Emma is in much better heart about Isabella now than she was at the beginning of the holidays, but she is entirely dissatisfied with the school. It is a pity Aunt Emma is so easily cast down about her, as girls
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, though I remember pigs as being her chefs d'oeuvre. Jane, Mrs John Wedgwood, who had never had good health, died quite suddenly at Shrewsbury, where she had gone to consult Dr Darwin. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Wedgwood. CRESSELLY, Ap. 25, 1836. MY DEAR EMMA, We were totally unprepared for the intelligence from Shrewsbury yesterday, it seems yet to me like a painful dream that makes me restless. One's understanding as well as one's eyes are holden sometimes with regard to the illness of those
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person. You must be absolute arbitress, but do, dear Emma, remember life is short, and two months is the sixth part of the year, and that year, the first, from which for my part, things shall hereafter date. Whatever you do will be right, but it will be too good to be unselfish for me until I am part of you Dearest Emma, good-bye. Emma Wedgwood to Madame Sismondi. MAER, Nov 15th. [1838]. MY DEAR AUNT JESSIE, Nothing is pleasanter than writing good news, and I am sure you will be pleased with what
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Monsieur Sismondi to Emma Wedgwood. CH NE, 23 Novembre, 1838. CH RE EMMA, C'est moi qui prens la plume avant ma femme, parceque je veux tre le premier embrasser, au moins, en id e, ma jolie ni ce, la f liciter du bonheur que je vois commencer pour elle, ou si elle est trop fi re pour le permettre, me f liciter du moins moi-m me de ce que cette charmante personne, si faite pour le mariage, si faite pour r pandre du bonheur autour d'elle, va enfin accomplir sa destin e. Tout ce qu'on peut d
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women. Georgina Tollet to Emma Wedgwood. [13 or 14 Nov., 1838.] MY DEAR, DEAR EMMA, I hope I am as glad as I ought to be at the thing happening that I have been longing for, but you ought to be gratified at my selfish sorrow when I think of losing my earliest friend. It is seldom one thinks two people so enviable as we think you and Charles; we think you as lucky [page] 1
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that it were the 14th instead of the 24th. Good-bye, my own dear Emma. I find I must wait in town till the latter end of next week, on account of the lease and paying the money, and suspect I must attend the Geolog. Soc. on the 9th, so my plans are hampered. But what does anything signify to the possessor of Macaw Cottage? Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood. Jan. 1, 1839. !! 12, UPPER GOWER STREET!! MY DEAR EMMA, Many thanks for your two most kind, dear, and affectionate letters, which I received
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you a good night, my own good dear Emma, C. D. Tuesday morning. Once more I must thank you for your letters, which I have just read. I have been busy at work all morning, and have made my own room quite charming, so comfortable. The only difficulty is that I have not things enough!! to put in all the drawers and corners. I can neither write nor think about anything but the house, I am in such spirits at our good fortune. Erasmus Co. used to be always talking of the immense advantage of Chester
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Charlotte Langton to her sister Emma Darwin. [ONIBURY, March, 1839]. MY DEAR EMMA, I think it will be a very good plan for your and Elizth.'s letters to be made to do double duty, and save you both a good deal of repetition; and it will serve my purpose very well too, for I sometimes feel it absolutely necessary to give a sign of life when I have not wherewithal to fill a sheet or half a sheet, and on those occasions it will be a great relief to me to have a letter to hook on to. Elizabeth
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had was almost a greater grief than any I have felt since with respect to her. In the summer Emma Darwin went to Tenby, taking her two eldest children, Willy and Annie. This long journey was a most unusual event in her quiet life. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin, at Tenby. DOWN, Wednesday [June, 1846]. I was exceedingly glad to get your letter with so wonderfully good an account of your voyage and of the dear little souls' happiness; I am glad you took them. Do you not think you had better come
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quite as well dressed. The ladies were nicely dressed but not expensively, and much more decently than their betters are in a ball-room now-a-days. I have been rather cross at all the adulation about Louis Napoleon. Really Mr Goddard's (the priest at Chiselhurst) sermon might have been preached about a saint, and then would have been thought exaggerated. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. February 26th, 1873. MY DEAR EMMA, I had so nice a letter from Henrietta that I feel inclined to tell
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Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. DOWN, October 22nd [1891 ?]. I had a call from a pretty Mrs , so soft and affected I could hardly stand her. I think affectation is just as rare as merriment nowadays. Lady Derby deserved more than civility, as I think she has some real affection for me (odd to say). Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. THE GROVE, Oct. 17th, 1891. I don't think Ruth is at all suitable for you. I wish you had forgotten say Her Dearest Foe or Fair Carew (have you
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Elizabeth, who was at Down (May 19th, 1851): We are disappointed at your account of dear Emma. I looked forward with so much hope to this time for the healing influence to her sorrow. However, we must have patience and wait. [page] 14
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, ii. 163 Tennyson, Lord, ii. 190, 191; Fanny Allen on his poems, ii. 194; Emma Darwin on his poems, ii. 286 Terry, Kate, ii. 180 Thorley, Miss, ii. 132, 139, 140 Thorley, Mrs, ii. 139 Thornton, Marianne: friendship with Fanny Mackintosh, i. 186, 187. See also i. 215, 235 Letter to Hannah More, i. 186 Thornton, Henry, i. 216 Tindal, Judge, i. 156, 157 Tollet, Ellen, death of, ii. 287 Letter to Emma Darwin, ii. 11 Tollet, Georgina, ii. 165 Letter to Emma Darwin, ii. 11 Tollets, the, of Betley Hall
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, 167; letters to her daughter Elizabeth, i. 65, 75, 154; ii. 44; letter to her daughter Emma, ii. 30; letter to her daughters Fanny and Emma, i. 238; letters to her husband, i. 16, 18, 24, 120, 184, 185; ii. 43; letters to Madame Sismondi (Jessie Allen), i. 36, 63, 126, 136, 137, 142, 147, 158, 179, 207, 213, 216, 224, 230, 231; letter to her sisters, i. 101 Wedgwood, Mrs Josiah, of Leith Hill Place (Caroline Darwin), i. 139; characteristics, i. 140, 141; her infant school, i. 163, 164; goes to
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CHAPTER III 1813 1814 John Allen's marriage Jessie, Emma, and Fanny Allen at Dulwich The Mackintoshes in Great George Street An escapade of the Duke of Brunswick London parties and Madame de Sta l. IN 1812 John Hensleigh Allen, of Cresselly, married Gertrude, daughter of Lord Robert Seymour. His three sisters had lived with him since his father's death in 1803, and these nine years were often looked back on as a time of peculiar happiness to all. Their home at Cresselly now came to an end, and
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youth, Marianne a beauty and Georgina very piquante 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]. ... Dear William Clifford has been with us during the last six weeks, and has shewn himself so inexpressibly amiable that every individual of our party is to-day in mourning for his loss. At first he wished to prevail on us to change our quarters for Rome, but
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circle: Write, write, write a letter! Good advice will make us better, Sisters, Brothers, Father, Mother, Let us all advise each other! Emma Wedgwood to her mother. GENEVA, Ap. 24 [1827]. ... I was rather surprised to find you did not expect to see us home before July. I shall be very sorry to leave aunt Jessie whenever it happens, but then I shall be so glad to come home and see you all that I don't mean to trouble my head about anything, but let things take their course according to aunt
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the sweetest countenance I ever beheld in a woman of her age. Age generally long before 50 gives us a few wrinkles that look very like frowns; her brow is still smooth and polished as at 20. Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. COLOGNE, Friday, July 20 [1827]. ... Fanny found your letter here. I must say you write the pleasantest letters in the world, because you tell your own feelings and that is what one is most interested about. I shall leave to Fanny to tell you about our delightful
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she will do.... I feel a little flat this week after the excitement of the last, but a ira. Farewell, my dear Emma, with warmest love to you all. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her daughters Fanny and Emma. MAER, May 20th, 1831. MY DEAR GIRLS, ... I feel very grateful to Mrs Holland for the pleasant visit you have had with her, and to her good-natured daughters for promoting your pleasure so much as they have done. We have now pretty well done with our Newcastle bustles, as they were yesterday
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many hopes and fears, was appointed to a Police Magistracy at the end of 1831. This meant that his marriage could now prudently take place. Emma Wedgwood to Fanny Mackintosh. Dec. 6th, 1831. MY DEAREST FANNY, You may think how pleased I was at your note. Hensleigh's last letter was so low that I had almost given up all hopes, and the first line of your letter struck me in the contrary sense from what you meant. It was delightful indeed when I found out how it was. How nice it is my dear old
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hardly write for Snow [just two years old] who is romancing on, and acting, and speechifying, but what it is all about I have not an idea, but jingle, jingle, comes in very often in the discourse. I have just made out a large wind blew the little wind down, with a very important shake of the head.) There is wind enough to-day to blow many things down besides little winds.... Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, Friday, Ap. 11 [1835]. ... We have had visits here from Susan Darwin
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CHAPTER XX 1837 1838 Josiah Wedgwood's engagement to Caroline Darwin The Sismondis at Pescia A tour in the Apennines Mrs Norton at Cresselly Emma at Shrewsbury and Onibury Hensleigh resigns his Police Magistracy A family meeting in Paris Bro's illness. THE following letter was written just after the engagement of Josiah Wedgwood to his cousin Caroline Darwin. He was 42, and she was 37 years old. His mother had longed for this to happen thirteen years ago. Emma Wedgwood to her sister Elizabeth
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her what I think of her luck. Heaven bless you, Your loving friend, G. TOLLET. Ellen Tollet to Emma Wedgwood. You two will be quite too happy together, and I hope you will have a chimney that smokes, or something of that sort to prevent your being quite intoxicated. It will be quite enchanting to come and see you, but you will be an untold loss. You are the only single girl of our own age in this country worth caring much for but life is short and one ought to be cheerful as long as one is
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CHAPTER III 1839 The wedding at Maer Caroline's baby dies Life at Gower Street Hensleigh becomes Registrar of Cabs Elizabeth gives up the Sunday-school Charles and Emma's first visit to Maer Their child born Dec. 27, 1839 My mother's character. CHARLES DARWIN and Emma Wedgwood were married on Tuesday, the 29th January, 1839, at Maer Church. The wedding was perfectly quiet, and they went at once to Upper Gower Street. Emma Darwin to her mother. GOWER STREET, Thursday [Jan. 31, 1839]. MY DEAR
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CHAPTER III 1840 1842 The ill-health of Charles Darwin The Sismondis at Gower Street Miss Edgeworth on Emma Darwin Anne Elizabeth Darwin, born Erasmus and Miss Martineau Charles and Doddy at Shrewsbury Sismondi's fatal illness The birth of Edmund Langton. Emma Darwin to her aunt Madame Sismondi. 12, UPPER GOWER STREET, Feb. 7 [1840]. MY DEAR AUNT JESSIE, It seems very odd to me that I should have been all this time without writing to you, but I have been so helpless and unable to do anything
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been introduced, which made her suspect some word beginning with H. was important; and then on the principle of transparency she deciphered corn law rhyme, and so guessed the whole. Marianne wrote by return of post in a transport of curiosity to know what it meant. No doubt she well knew that the perseverance of Shrewsbury was not to be baffled. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Sunday [SHREWSBURY] [probably 13 March, 1842]. MY DEAR EMMA, I must go on complimenting you on your letters; it makes me
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the amende honorable. What you have done at Caldy prospers and bears fruit more abundantly than I could have believed possible. Yesterday Emma persuaded me to lay my oldness aside, and make one of a boat party to Caldy with John Allen1 (School Commissioner) to visit your school, so that you will see it figure in the school report. We found 12 or 13 children. After summoning all in that were at hand there were 17 examined. The school at full amounts to twenty-two. It is, as you know, amply
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CHAPTER IX 1849 1851 Life at Down Malvern water-cure A tour in Wales Jessie Sismondi on F. W. Newman The Allens' youthy age Heywood Lane Miss Martineau and Mr Atkinson A party at the Bunsens. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. 3 Feb. [1849], HEYWOOD LODGE. MY DEAR EMMA, I should be grateful for anything that brought me one of your sweet letters, and I most gratefully thank you for your affection which has prompted you to send me a souvenir, and though I have no need of one with regard to
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expecting to be confined in May. Very shortly afterwards Annie fell ill of a fever, and died on the 23rd April. My father was summoned to Malvern, and arrived on the 17th April. I well remember his arrival and how he flung himself on the sofa in an agony of grief. Fanny Allen to her niece Elizabeth Wedgwood, at Jersey. DOWN, Good Friday [18 April, 1851]. DEAR ELIZABETH, The accounts from Malvern are not so favourable to-day as I had hoped. I believe Emma had more fears than I, after Miss
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may injure Charles's health, which is 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
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Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday [Summer, 1867]. I succeeded in going to Ravensbourne, and it was pleasant. I took the Lancashire Wedding or Darwin moralized to read in the carriage. The moral is that it is not wise to give up a pretty, poor, healthy girl you love and marry a sickly, rich, cross one you don't care for, which does not require a conjuror to tell one. The story ought to have been giving up a pretty, sick girl you love and marrying a healthy one you don't care
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such energy, perseverance and talent as yours would be sure to succeed; but I never expected such brilliant success as this. Again and again I congratulate you. But you have made my hand tremble so I can hardly write. The telegraph came here at eleven. We have written to W. and the boys. God bless you, my dear old fellow may your life so continue. Your affectionate Father, CH. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday [January, 1868]. We had a pleasant interlude yesterday in
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one. The discussion does not read so atrociously bad, or inanely poor as I had fancied; but that is the highest praise which can be bestowed on my part. Yours affectionately, C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Saturday [probably 1872]. Leonard is bringing a young man from Chatham to-day with the assurance that we shall hate him. Frank is also bringing a friend who is very nice. But I don't feel at ease in the company of young men and feel out of my element. Fanny Hensleigh
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Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. Tuesday Evening [1873]. F. has recovered remarkably quickly and went to the sand walk to-]day and did a little work. Dr Clark has not sent the dietary yet and we are rather trembling as to how strict he will be. I make C. Buxton's book1 quite my Bible at present. He hits so many small nails on the head that suit my feelings and opinions so exactly, and I think he is so very acute, and sometimes a little cynical to my surprise. I found George a
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Evans's tearful face made me feel rather hard and unnatural. In writing to you I shall try to forget how long it will be before you get my letter, and imagine you at Chatham. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. BASSET, Sunday, Aug. 23rd [1874]. MY DEAR LEO, We are packing up for to-morrow's start for home at 6.30 a.m.; after a most successful and peaceful stay with dear old William. F. says he has not felt so rested and improved and full of enjoyment since old Moor Park days. George joined us
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Emma Darwin to Sara Sedgwrick. [Oct. 2nd, 1877.] I will not disclaim your opinion of me, but take it as a proof of your affection, and in returning your affection I do not think you will ever find me wanting. You say you are so American, and so I think you are in the quality that I have always observed in the few Americans I have known (and most strongly in that happy Keston family), viz. a readiness to trust and confide in the liking and good feeling of those they are with. They were married
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, leaning on her stick and followed by her dog Tony. Her first question was always, 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 constant attempts to protect her from the beggars and imposters who beset her to the end of her life. My mother thus describes going to Elizabeth's house
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). Erasmus, the eldest child of Horace Darwin, was born on December 7th, 1881. Emma Darwin to Horace and Ida Darwin. Sat. [DOWN, Dec. 10, 1881]. MY DEAREST IDA AND HORACE, This is only to be the shortest line to say how delightful it is and has been at all odd times ever since that blessed Thursday letter to think of you with little Eras, by your side. In the night it has been my first and last thought. Now I shall prose to Hen., and she may read you what she likes. Your loving mother, E. D. Emma
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Emma Darwin to Maud Dupuy. THE GROVE, Tuesday [1884]. MY DEAR MAUD, This is only a line to wish you good-bye. I have been so vexed at George's attack, which is so ill-timed and prevents the enjoyment of your last days together. Your visit here was a great happiness to me, as something in you (I don't know what) made me feel sure you would always be sweet and kind to George when he is ill and uncomfortable. My dear Maud, Yours affectionately, E. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta
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