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F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF
morning to hear how you got on. I asked Willy how Baby had slept and he answered She did not cry not one mouthful. 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
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F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF
no public schools to cool and harden them as we have? They are of our blood and family, I do not see why they should have so much more sensibility, such quicker sympathies, such readier affections, unless it is that our odious schools mar us. Emma never saw her mother again. She died on the 31st March, 1846. Elizabeth wrote to her sister Emma: Oh how thankful I am that her death was so gentle! In the evening I heard her saying as I had done before, 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in
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received opinion on these matters, but the book is exactly what I am glad it is Sydney Smith's conversational opinions on these subjects, and they are exactly himself in those days when he gave these lectures. His thoughts are thrown out almost carelessly, funny, gay, serious, and witty, and so exactly himself that his voice and manner go along with me as I read. Jessie Sismondi was now 73, Emma Allen 70, and Fanny nearly 69. The following letter to Elizabeth Wedgwood is another evidence of the
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Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. Nov. 22 [1864]. I was so glad to receive your dear, affectionate letter, saying you would come and see us. I was thinking how unsatisfactory it would be only to see you for a call or two in London, as I do not feel easy to leave Ch. for a night, he is so subject to distressing fainting feelings, and one never knows when an attack may come on. It will be very nice for him to see you too. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Thursday [March, 1865]. MY
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am tired and so no more. Yours affectionately, CHARLES DARWIN. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. April 27th [1875]. MY DEAR EMMA, I have been thinking of trying my hand in writing with a lithographic pencil, but I have not patience to wait, as your pretious letter with its grateful remembrance of the sad April days of 511 makes my heart beat with gratitude to you for its recollection coupled as it was by the memory of your grief for your darling. It is true gaps can never be filled up, and I
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F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF
: Bourne's wife is dead, and he has brought home a very sweet-looking turnspitish dog. I do not know how it would strike anyone else, but to her children it seems very characteristic. It was to her an interesting fact that she would meet a sweet-looking dog with the gardener. My brother Francis, who lived with my mother, had become engaged to Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, in the summer of 1883, and they were married in the same autumn. She had been a lecturer at Newnham College. Emma Darwin to her son Francis
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. Matthew Surtees, of North Cerney. 8. Jessie (1777 1853) m. J. C. de Sismondi, historian. 9. Octavia, died young. 10. Emma (1780 1866) unmarried. 11. Frances (Fanny) (1781 1875) unmarried. CHILDREN OF JOHN HENSLEIGH ALLEN OF CRESSELLY (1769 1843). 1. Seymour Phillips (1814 1861) of Cresselly, m. Catherine dan. of Earl of Portsmouth. 2. Henry George (1815 1908). 3. John Hensleigh (1818 1868). 4. Isabella Georgina, m. G. Lort Phillips of Laurenny. CHILDREN OF SIR JAMES AND LADY MACKINTOSH. 1. Bessy
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Darwin. 3. Charlotte (1797 1862) m. Rev. Charles Langton. 4. Henry Allen (Harry) (1799 1885) Barrister, m. his cousin Jessie Wedgwood. 5. Francis (1800 1888) Potter, m. Frances Mosley. 6. Hensleigh (1803 1891) Police Magistrate, Philologist, m. his cousin Fanny Mackintosh. 7. Fanny (1806 1832) unmarried. 8. Emma (1808 1896) m. her cousin Charles Darwin [page] xi
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. Matthew Surtees, of North Cerney. 8. Jessie (1777-1853) m. J. C. de Sismondi, historian. 9. Octavia, died young. 10. Emma (1780-1866) unmarried. 11. Frances (Fanny) (1781-1875) unmarried. CHILDREN OF JOHN HENSLEIGH ALLEN OF CRESSELLY (1769-1843). 1. Seymour Phillips (1814-1861) of Cresselly, m. Catherine dau. of Earl of Portsmouth. 2. Henry George (1815-1908). 3. John Hensleigh (1818-1868). 4. Isabella Georgina, m. G. Lort Phillips of Laurenny. CHILDREN OF SIR JAMES AND LADY MACKINTOSH. 1. Bessy
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Darwin. 3. Charlotte (1797-1862) m. Rev. Charles Langton. 4. Henry Allen (Harry) (1799-1885) Barrister, m. his cousin Jessie Wedgwood. 5. Francis (1800-1888) Potter, m. Frances Mosley. 6. Hensleigh (1803-1891) Police Magistrate, Philologist, m. his cousin Fanny Mackintosh. 7. Fanny (1806-1832) unmarried. 8. Emma (1808-1896) m. her cousin Charles Darwin. [page] xii
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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, although the journey was a great effort. He stayed the night with Erasmus Darwin in London. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. PARK STREET, 3 o'clock. Here am I and have had some tea and toast for luncheon and am feeling very well. My drive did me good and I did not feel exhausted till I got near here and now I am resting again and feel
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and round the little garden looking so cheerful. And then the day that separated us is apart from all other days, but it is not grief or melancholy that dwells on it. I feel as if I had been permitted to see something of the rapture of a higher nature to whose white robe the gleam of bliss was given. It is the loss of her that gives the sadness, there is no other painful recollection connected with her, so that I don't feel afraid that either Emma or I should be here alone. HEYWOOD LANE, June
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her generosity, i. 155; gives up Maer Sunday-school, ii. 35, 36; preyed upon by beggars, ii. 35, 242; goes to live at the Ridge, ii. 106; builds schools, ii. 106, 107; leaves the Ridge, ii. 178; house in London, ii. 188; moves to Down, ii. 189; failing sight, ii. 212; her spirits failing through loss of eyesight, ii. 235; last illness and death, ii. 242, 243 Letters to Fanny Allen, i. 139; ii. 27; letters to Emma Darwin, ii. 30, 35, 41, 79, 87, 102; letter to her father, i. 119; letters to her
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Charles Darwin, ii. 195 M ller, Max, ii. 114 Music lessons, Emma Darwin's, i. 62, 187, 188 Myers, Mrs, photographs by, ii. 266 Napier, Admiral Sir Charles, ii. 57 n. Napoleon Buonaparte: Dr Darwin's scheme of sending him to St Helena, i. 67; Fanny Allen's sympathy with, i. 74, 78; Queen Hortense's souvenirs of, i. 263, 264; Life of, ii. 198, 200, 272 Napoleon, Louis, i. 264; Madame Sismondi's opinion of, ii. 144, 151, 152, See also ii. 198, 211 Naturalist's Voyage round the World, ii. 56 Newman
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ERASMUS DARWIN BORN DECEMBER 7, 1881. KILLED IN ACTION APRIL 24, 1915. SINCE this book was finished Erasmus Darwin, a grandson of Charles and Emma Darwin, has been killed in action. He was only thirty-three years old, and his life was cut short before all its promise could be fulfilled; but he had already shown himself a man of such rare abilities and so fine and lovable a character that it has been felt that some account of him should be put on record. At the request of his aunt, Mrs
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CHAPTER II 1804 1807 John Hensleigh Allen inherits Cresselly Departure of the Mackintoshes for India A press-gang story Tom Wedgwood's death Return of the Josiah Wedgwoods to Staffordshire Sarah Wedgwood and Jessie Allen. MR ALLEN died in 1803. His son John Hensleigh Allen inherited Cresselly, and after this date lived there with his three unmarried sisters, Jessie, Emma, and Fanny. The following letter from Fanny Allen was written whilst staying in London with the Mackintoshes. Mackintosh had
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with provisions, and three ragged boys to drive, and spent all the day under the trees. It was amusing to see the difference between our two French servants and any English ones. They were playing all manner of pranks with the asses and screaming and laughing like boys, quite as much at ease as if we were not looking on. They enjoyed the day full as much as we. Emma and Fanny were very happy on their asses, and quacked accordingly. Last night we had our soir e which Mr Clifford foretold before
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CHAPTER X 1819 Jessie Allen and Sismondi An outpouring to her sister Bessy's reply Some account of Sismondi Their early married life Posting across France. IN the autumn of 1818 Jessie, Emma, and Fanny Allen came back after their three years absence on the Continent. As has appeared, Sismondi had proposed to Jessie in 1816, and although he had been refused he continued his suit. The following letter shows her frame of mind. She was staying at Cresselly with her brother John and his wife
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CHAPTER XII 1823 1824 Bessy's lessening strength A Wedgwood-Darwin party at Scarborough A visit to Sydney Smith at Foston Rectory A memorable debate An averted duel Emma confirmed Revels and flirtations Kitty Wedgwood's death Sarah Wedgwood builds on Maer Heath. BESSY was now 59 years old, and her sensitive temperament often caused her to suffer, as age told upon her health. She wrote (1823): When I consult my feelings they are often so lively that I am obliged to watch my expressions for fear
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as possible. I am glad Emma [Holland] has shewn her old cordiality to you, and I daresay Anne [Marsh] will do the same. Let me advise you by no means to stand upon your points with any of your friends. I am sure it is not the way to be happy or wise either. Don't lose any opportunity of calling when it comes in your way without minding whether you owe them a visit, for a volunteer at a convenient season may sometimes spare you a long walk at an inconvenient one.... Addition by Charlotte Wedgwood
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Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. MAER, January 16 [1827]. Sarah dined here the other day in very good spirits, though the troubles and complaints of her small establishment are beginning to come in, and she has done too much for their accommodation not to be expected to do more. While I am upon the subject of Sarah, I cannot resist telling you that she subscribed 200 to the distressed manufacturers at the general Committee under an anonymous signature. I do believe she has given
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CHAPTER XVIII 1832 1834 Josiah Wedgwood elected for Stoke-upon-Trent Bessy's serious illness The Langtons at Onibury Miss Martineau and Mrs Marsh Hensleigh Wedgwood's scruples as to administering oaths William Clifford abroad A tour in Switzerland and visit to Queen Hortense at Constance. AT the end of 1832 Josiah Wedgwood was elected in the first reformed Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent. Emma Wedgwood to Madame Sismondi. 16 Dec. 1832. MY DEAREST AUNT JESSIE, Mamma has been saying she meant to
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I took to gardening at a great rate. I think one enjoys being alive more in that sort of late autumn fine weather than at any other time of the year. Good-bye, my dear F. Emma Wedgwood to her sister-in-law Mrs Hensleigh Wedgwood. MAER, Monday [Nov. 21, 1836]. ... We enjoyed Charles's visit uncommonly. We had been very handsome in inviting all the outlyers of the family to meet him, and the last morning the chaise from Tern Hill1 did not come, and we persuaded them to stay, and had just made
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, but I should not be surprised if we were to see Mrs Norton and Mr Sheridan here again; they stay a fortnight longer at Tenby. Baugh is in very good spirits and is fully occupied administering advice and comfort to Mrs Norton, who has carried away the hearts of Harry and Johnny [Fanny Allen's nephews]. They are wild with enthusiasm. Her singing carried all before it.... Emma Wedgwood to her sister-in-law Mrs Hensleigh Wedgwood. ONIBURY, Friday [3 Nov., 1837]. MY DEAR FANNY, I set out on my
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taxes will be I calculate about 30 per annum; I have half read Sir R. Peel's great speech, it strikes me as very good, and it is very interesting. I am sure I have sent you a dull enough letter to-day, so good-bye, my pattern wife. C. D. The income-tax, now imposed for the first time since the great war, was 7d. in the pound. 30 at this rate would be the tax on an income of 1,030. Emma Darwin to her aunt Madame Sismondi. 12, UPPER GOWER STREET [April 2, 1842]. MY DEAREST AUNT JESSIE, I should
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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. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin (at Maer). Monday Morning [May, 1842]. On Saturday I went in the City and did a deal of printing business. I came back gloomy and tired; the government money has gone much quicker than I thought, and the expenses of the Coral volume are greater, being
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songs sound most agreeably on all sides; nightingales are common. Judging from an odd cooing note, something like the purring of a cat, doves are very common in the woods. The move to Down was made on the 14th Sept., and my mother's third child, Mary Eleanor, was born there on the 23rd Sept., 1842, and died on the 16th Oct. Emma Darwin to her sister-in-law Mrs Hensleigh Wedgwood. DOWN, Wednesday [20 Oct. 1842]. Thank you, my dearest Fanny, for your sweet, feeling note. Our sorrow is nothing to
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, the sky, so that insensibly he made you sympathize with him. I was born 25th September, 1843. There were now three children in the nursery. Emma Darwin to her sister-in-law Mrs Hensleigh Wedgwood. DOWN, Wed. [say Oct., 1843]. We sent the maids to a concert at Bromley on Monday, and it has done Brodie such a wonderful deal of good that if she could but get to a play or two, I think it would cure her. There have been many breezes in that apartment, but I have told Brodie that I shall not keep
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her sister Emma Darwin. MAER, Tuesday [1844]. I think Willy [aged 4] must have the sweetest and most affectionate disposition in the world. We are all charmed with your anecdote of him, Aunt Sarah especially. I hope he will keep his resolution always to comfy Annie, and I daresay he will easily understand the distinction of duties between himself and Charles. He did not always charm his great-aunt Sarah. A few years later, to her horror and amazement, he expressed in her presence a fervent wish
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My dearest Nigger. He called himself her nigger meaning her slave, and the expression You nigger, as a term of endearment, is familiar to our ears from her lips. Emma Darwin to her aunt Madame Sismondi. DOWN, Sunday [probably September, 1846]. Charlotte writes to me for a receipt for a punishment for Edmund. If she will send me ditto for Etty I will engage to furnish her, but I am quite as much non-plussed as she can be. Since she has been unwell the whims in her little head are wonderful. Now
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disappointed. 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] message1 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. 1
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Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Monday [MALVERN, 21st April, 1851]. When the Dr came at 11.30 he pronounced her decisively better. I was in wonderful spirits, but I have been a good deal damped (8 a.m.) by the Dr finding the pulse tremulous. I tell you this, for it will prevent the too strong and ultimately wretched alternations of spirits. An hour ago I was foolish with delight, and pictured her to myself making custards (whirling round) as I think she called them. I told her I thought she
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grand; what a difference between the highest and the lowest number! By Jove how well his perseverance and energy have been rewarded. This is a very dull place, but we like it much better than we did at first. I wish you were coming sooner. My very dear old man, Your affectionate Father, C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Wednesday [August, 1868]. Mrs Cameron very good-naturedly took me and Bessy to call on Mrs Tennyson. It was pouring with rain, and the more it rained the
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very conservative (although he was a Liberal in politics) said when we spoke about the change, I would as soon be called Dog. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Friday [probably Dec., 1868]. The Penny Reading did very well last night. We had three dreadful comic songs, not vulgar, but duller than anything ever was heard. Frank and I played twice. Our two black sheep, whom I hate the sight of, little Rob. and Mrs S. were there, and the two yellow sheep (Miss X.'s) also. We have been
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yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson's bland and mild Shakespeare grated like gravel between my teeth one, who could so measure such a genius has no wings to soar into the higher regions of poetry; he must content himself to write such things as Locksley Hall. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. Monday, Feb. 8 [1869]. MY DEAR AUNT FANNY, You were quite right in telling me I should like Bunsen if I persevered. What an angelic nature he
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nation and nation I should have thought no one could have doubted. God bless you, my dear Henrietta. My warmest of loves for the beloved Emma, whom you have the pleasure of calling mother, and to your daddy respectfully, and love to Bessy. Affectionately yours, FRANS. ALLEN. In the years when we were growing up, I believe my mother was often puzzled as to what rules to make about keeping Sunday. I remember she persuaded me to refuse any invitation from the neighbours that involved using the
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Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Thursday [Feb., 1871]. I feel a constantly recurring sense of relief that the war is over. We hear of French families returning at once. They say poor Mme. Tourgenieff is in great despair at the end of everything. I came to high words with one of our guests, a German. He seemed very sore at the general feeling in England for France. However, we each spit our spite, and then made peace. Charles Darwin to his daughter Henrietta. DOWN, March 28, 1871. MY
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It is quite refreshing to think of you and Hope, immersed in Geometry and indifferent to the cares of poor, weak mortals. E. A. D. In June, 1871, I became engaged to Mr. R. B. Litchfield. Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. HAREDENE, ALBUEY, GUILDFORD, Sunday [July, 1871]. We were thankful to have Henrietta as courier for the last time, as Charles was so giddy and bad at Croydon I could not leave him. When we got out at Gomshall, Esther, who was in another carriage with the kittens
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[called] on Friday Mrs B. found it almost too tiresome to ask anything about your marriage, so I soon spared her and got on her own affairs, and I like her in spite of manners. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. Sunday Evening [Sept., 1871]. Leo has been going over the Joch pass and the Aletsch glacier, sleeping at a hut 10,000 feet above the sea. I suppose boys enjoy such things, but I should have thought it horrid, such a piercing high wind, he could not stop a minute to look
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heaven's sake report progress of your work. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard at Malta. DOWN, Saturday, July 22nd [? 1876]. The summer keeps on blazing away as if we were in Malta, many of the flowers dying, and none of them growing. The evenings delightful under the limes, so sweet. F. has taken to sit and lie out which is wholesome for him. [page] 22
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about the moon's period. I also chuckle greatly about the internal heat. How this will please the geologists and evolutionists. That does sound awkward about the heat being bottled up in the middle of the earth. What a lot of swells you have been meeting and it must have been very interesting. Hurrah for the bowels of the earth and their viscosity and for the moon and for the Heavenly bodies and for my son George (F.R.S. very soon). Yours affectionately, C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her daughter-in
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in Science. My dear old William, Your affectionate father, CH. DARWIN. My best love to Sara. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. Tuesday [1878]. Bernard is perfectly well and has the most comical games putting dole (gold) pennies and silver pennies under each of the buttons in a certain chair, in and out of his pockick 20 times this has lasted 3 days. For 2 days, stirring up dry middlings for the birds was quite delightful and very little mess made (considering). I quite agree
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of species is nothing to me. Altogether it was very interesting, and he talked very easily and without any condescension, or oracularly. Good-bye, dear Mother, you will see us at Easter, Your affec. son, W. E. D. Emma Darwin to her son Francis. Whit Tuesday [June 3rd, 1879]. We are expecting the Club and band before long, and Bernard has been very full of it since yesterday, and wanting to know all details, and who will carry the flag the flag is dead which proved a disappointment. You will be
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me feel at ease and be amused. After I grew up, it year by year was a greater happiness for me to go and see him. To me there was a charm in his manner that I never saw in anybody else. 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
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the tennis-court, and as soon as they are matured they are to be broken to F. My husband and I had been to Florence this year. My mother wrote on our return: It will be nice seeing you, but I feel as if you had but just gone not exactly the style of Mme. de S vign . Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Sara. DOWN, Friday [Oct., 1881]. I think F. is quite set up by our happy week at Cambridge. We saw many pleasant people, and F. called on old Dr Kennedy, of Shrewsbury, who was particularly pleased
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ever paid you, and have only the impression of peaceful happiness and very little unwellness. Pleasant excursions or short drives, and the pleasant change of you returning from your work with a little news sitting on your lawn, which I always imagine in sunshine. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. Saturday, May 13th, 1882. I am trying to make stages in the day of something special to do. It often comes over me with a wave of desolate feeling that there is nothing I need do, and
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feeling Bessy joins, though she would feel the weaning from Bernard much more painfully than I should do. Yours, my two dear children, E. D. I don't in the least mind talking about it, but I can write more clearly than speak. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. Friday night [Dec., 1883.] Bessy and Mrs Myers are gone to the Electra of the young ladies at Girton. We were talking about the play before Bernard when he said, Is it nice? I answered, Yes, very nice. B.: What is it about? Me
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avoiding all greetings and acquaintances. Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Sara. DOWN, Monday [1885]. I came here on Friday, having spent two days at 31, Queen Anne St. One of the mornings I went to see the statue. The situation is unique, and I liked the attitude, but I do not think it is a strong likeness. George has been with Mr Boehm to have a cast of his hand taken as a sort of guide to altering the hands; but I believe if he attempted to make them as small as they really were, they would
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I saw Parslow1 on Saturday and he was still full of the day at South Kensington. He said he should never forget the scene as long as he lived, and he was grateful to William for having planned it all. Being recognized (as he thought) by Admiral Sulivan gratified him too, and the reception at Leonard's, down to the Port and Sherry, was all delightful. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. DOWN [Summer, 1885]. On Tuesday we had the S.'s for tea. She is pleasant and with some fun in
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Gladstone. I was absorbed in the debate yesterday, Gladstone's was a very fine speech with all the obstacles to the scheme slurred over, and with a very unworthy comparison about intimidation in England. I am glad he spoke so highly of Albert Dicey's book. Trevelyan's1 speech was grand, and Parnell's a mere personal attack and squabble, and very bad even for him. I wonder how it will end. Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. THE GROVE, Sunday [? March, 1886]. I am in a fever of anxiety that Chamberlain
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