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12%	F1553.1 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF aunt Harriet to come by the railroad after all.1 ... The benevolent will all rejoice to hear that we really got to the Lady of Lyons. It was very pretty and charming, and Macready managed to make himself look quite young and lovely. It was a great piece of good fortune and one duly appreciated by me.... Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. [MAER], July 21, 1838. I assure you I found myself rather flat and dull after all my dissipation and pleasure, but we have had such a sober quiet
12%	F1553.1 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF arrived not long ago. I am not sure that it will come very apropos if Uncle Allen is not quite recovered from the gout. Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, Nov. 1, 1838. How happy you must feel that all fear of war is over.1 I don't at all understand the merits of the case, but I admire 1 See p. 130. [page] 28
12%	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 Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood. [Postmark, 23 Nov., 1838], ATHEN UM, Tuesday Night. I positively can do nothing, and have done nothing this whole week, but think of you and our future life. You may then well imagine how I enjoy seeing your handwriting. I should have written yesterday but waited for your letter: pray do not talk of my waiting till I have time for writing or inclination to do so. It is a very high enjoyment to me, as I cannot talk to you, and feel your presence by having your
12%	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 warmest gratitude and affection in return for yours. I am going to write about dress and all sorts of frivolity to aunt Jessie, as I think it will suit her better than you, so I will wish you goodbye, my very dear uncle, and believe me, yours affectionately, EMMA W. Papa wishes to speak for himself. Thank you, my dear aunt Jessie, for your warm congratulations and sympathy with my happiness. I was very glad to return home last Saturday, as I grudge every day away from home now. Fanny and
12%	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 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]. The house is in such a bustle, that I do not know what I write. I have got the ring, which is the most important piece of news I have to tell. My two last days in London, when I wanted to have most leisure, were rendered very uncomfortable by a bad headache
12%	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 it. My father says he should like to have a drawing of you, which I am very glad of. Is Mr Richmond come back? I don't know whether Mr Holmes is better than him or not, I rather think he is tho'. Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. GOWER STREET, Tuesday, February 5 [1839]. MY DEAR ELIZABETH, I can't remember what we did on Saturday, except walking about a good deal and meeting a pianoforte van in [page] 3
12%	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 we have a few prints and drawings hung up. I long for some news of poor Caroline. Write quite openly, for I shall keep your letters to myself, and only read aloud parts. I hope Charlotte will write to me one of these days. Give my best love to my dear Mamma and Papa. I hope some of you have complimented Allen on the way he did the service. Good-bye, my dear Eliz. Emma Darwin to her mother. GOWER STREET, Thursday [8th Feb., 1839]. MY DEAREST MAMMA, I cannot tell you how pleased I was to see your
12%	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 Emma is as happy as possible, as she has always been there never was a person born under a happier star than she, her feelings are the most healthful possible; joy and sorrow are felt by her in their due proportions, nothing robs her of the enjoyment that happy circumstances would naturally give. Her account of her life with Charles Darwin and in her new m nage is very pleasant. I have been long convinced that it is for the happiness of children that they should not have amusements or
12%	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 tenderly, F. ALLEN. Emma Darwin to her sister Charlotte Langton. GOWER STREET, Friday [15 March, 1839]. My Charles has been very unwell since Sunday. We went to church at King's College and found the church not warmed, and not more than half-a-dozen people in it, and he was so very cold that I believe it was that which has made him so unwell. We had Ellen Tollet to dine with us [page] 3
12%	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 is so tiresome not drinking that he can't resist one glass. Next week we dine at Dulwich and go to Blagrove's concert, which I am afraid will be a great deal too deep for Charles. Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. GOWER STREET, Good-Friday [29 March, 1839]. Thank you for your letter which came to-day. I forgot to mention the basket. All the poultry was quite fresh and Fanny says the turkey was excellent, and Maer tongues are quite as superior as Hartfield pork. On Thursday [page] 4
12%	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 about the dinners. Snow was rather naughty one day here, so after they were gone to bed and she had been repentant, Fanny heard her say to Bro., Oh Bro., I can't bear it, turn your face towards me, kiss me, Bro. So Bro. cautiously asked, Is your face wet with tears? However he turned and kissed her which seemed to give her great comfort. Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. UPPER GOWER STREET, Tuesday, April 2, 1839. I must tell you how our learned party went off yesterday. Mr and Mrs
12%	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 always eats everything offered to him. The dinner was very good. Elizabeth Wedgwood to her sister Emma Darwin. MAER, Tuesday Night [11 April, 1839]. To-morrow month you will be here which will soon be here; and the fortnight, alas! soon gone, but then there will be your visit in August to look forward to next, and my run up to you sometime. I went and had a good batch of gardening after the Hollands were gone, planting a great patch of crocuses, in imitation of Shrewsbury, in the grass, and
12%	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 beginning to think of moving to the country. Madame, Sismondi to her niece Emma Darwin. CH NE, Jan. 26, 1841. If I had written to you ten days ago I should have told you Sismondi was much better,2 but within that time his hiccup has returned as violent as ever, and lasts the whole day. He continues to work in spite of it all the 1 A Naturalist's Voyage round the World. 2 Sismondi's fatal illness began during their stay in England in 1840. [page] 5
12%	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 Doddy) must have gone to Shrewsbury first. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin at Maer Hall. [SHREWSBURY, 1st July, 1841.] I will give you categorical account, and first for my own beggarly self. I was pretty brisk at first, but about four became bad and shivery. I was very desolate and forlorn and missed you cruelly. But to-day I am pretty brisk and enjoy myself. I think my father looking rather altered and aged, though he and the two old chicks appear very well [page] 5
12%	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 All through my father's middle age, his large frame, clear grey-blue eyes, and brown out-of-door looking complexion, so deceived many of his friends that they were apt to believe his ill-health to be more imaginary than real. The following letter proves that even a keen doctor's eye might have been at fault. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin, at Maer Hall. [SHREWSBURY, July 3, 1841.] It seems natural to write you a scrap, though I have not to thank you for one. Rather severe I guess. I was very
12%	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 Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Darwin. [CH NE, Sept. 17th, 1841.] My nephew and niece Isab.1 and her husband, passed ten or twelve days with us before they left Geneva and I enjoyed their visit. We both like his honest, warm, Welsh heart, Tory as it is, and I found Isaba. even more than affectionate, she was tender, considerate, both of the inconveniences of a small establishment as well as of Sismondi's unwellness. They were but one day or two at an inn here, yet in that day they invited
12%	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 writing. Emma Darwin to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood. [1st Feb. 1842.] I went in with the Hensleighs to the pantomime for the fun of seeing the children's pleasure. The first thing was the most dreadful blood and murder thing with a gibbet on the stage, and I thought it would be very bad for Bro's dreams, however, he stood it, and even the pistols going 1 Grand Duchess of W rtemberg, sister of the Czar Nicholas I. VOL. II. 5 [page] 6
12%	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 tho' whether that was Bro or not) whether the wicked Squire was really a bad man? and many discussions as to whether Mrs Sanders, the waxwork woman, was nice or not, and they thought all the women so beautiful. If you will have dissipation for children, they certainly enjoy a play ten times more than anything else. The first play ended by the military coming over a wall and shooting almost all the characters dead, to our great relief. It was at the Tottenham theatre, very low. Emma Darwin to her
12%	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 talked without any sort of stop for three hours, so that he is not agreeable. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. SHREWSBURY, Tuesday [March 1st or 8th, 1842]. I have been telling all about Doddy and Annie, and they like hearing everything. Catherine gives me up altogether as a moral teacher, after I have told her of my pitting Doddy to shew fight to Johnny1 and after my trying whether Doddy or J. should have last blow. Katty declares she shall always say I was once a good father. They think I probably
12%	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 summer-house at the end of the Sand-walk, and hear the constant click-click of her knitting-needles. She did not need to look at her stocking, knitting in the Scotch fashion with one of the needles stuck into a bunch of cock's feathers, tied at her waist, to steady it. There she sat hour after hour patiently and benevolently looking on, whilst we rushed about and messed our clothes as much as we liked. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin in London. Wednesday [SHREWSBURY, probably Oct., 1843]. Why did
12%	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 very gentle admonition respecting leaving open garden doors. He left mine wide open to-day, and the village pigs, taking it as an hint that I wished to see them, paid me a visit. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Sunday [SHREWSBURY, Oct., 1844]. My visit is going off very pleasantly; and my father is in excellent spirits. I have had a deal of parchment talk, as Catherine calls it, with my father, and shall have a good deal of wisdom to distil into you when I return, about Wills, c. My father says
12%	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 Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin at Maer. [DOWN], Monday night, Feb., 1845. MY DEAR WIFE, Now for my day's annals. In the morning I was baddish, and did hardly any work, and was as much overcome by my children as ever Bishop Copleston was with duck.1 But the children have been very good all day, and I have grown a good deal better this afternoon, and had a good romp with Baby I see, however, very little of the blesseds. The day was so thick and wet a fog that none of them went out, though a thaw
12%	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 Emma Darwin to her aunt Madame Sismondi. DOWN, Wednesday [Aug. 27th, 1845]. Eras came to us on Monday. He is surprisingly well. The children fasten on him all day, which he bears with wonderful patience, and draws demons and imps for them with as great perseverance as he does for his own particular friends Erny and Tiny. Charles has just finished his Journal, which has overtired him a good deal, and he is but poorly, now he has not the excitement of being forced to go on with his work. He has
12%	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 niece Emma Darwin. January 12, 1846. Your account of your mother was very consolatory to us, never was decline so slow and gentle. That one of us who would be the most tenderly and carefully nursed, is the only one of us allowed to linger beyond the time here. I entirely forget my lecture on education to you. Since you remember it and mean to follow it, I only hope it was a wise one. You are a child after my own heart to like the instructing part, and I only wish you may be allowed intervals that
12%	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 they always succeeded and were fresh to give her their attention for another ten minutes when she called for them. This could not fatigue any mother, not even Mrs Allen. The learning that profits our understanding is of our own acquiring, therefore later. Never mind if your children are dunces. No governess can do what a mother can for their souls, therefore, if possible, my Emma, keep them in your own hands. Could you have learnt anything but good from your nurse, the pious and truthful Molly
12%	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 should not be more known. It was a cruel blight that passed over the life of a person of such rare excellence. There are a great number of Coleridge's letters, very clever and amusing in one a very kind message to Miss Allens, Fanny and Emma, and how pleasant the recollection he had of his stay at Cresselly. Tom Poole's letters are interesting. I never cease regretting that Kitty [Wedgwood] did not accept him. How different would have been her life, to that absurd and ridiculous attachment which
12%	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 hers! God bless thee, my beloved child. Ever thy, J. S. I like much the thee and thou, it seems so pretty in Mrs Fry. The following letters were written during a visit to Shrewsbury in May, 1848. Dr Darwin was very seriously ill and this was my father's last visit there during his father's lifetime. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Saturday [SHREWSBURY, probably 20 May, 1848]. Though this will not go to-day I will write a bit of Journal, which in point of fact is a journal of all our healths. My
12%	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 stand, for he really could not endure affectation. But I think it was a certain grace of manner combined with an intention to please. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Saturday [Postmark 27th May, 1848]. I was so very glad to get your letter this morning with as good an account of the Baby as could be expected. I am so thankful you had Elizabeth with you; for she of all human beings would be of the greatest comfort to you. Her presence is a blessing and joy to everyone. I am weak enough to-day
12%	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 view which they talk of in this history. He seems to me to have the same that Fox and Mackintosh had in their fragments. If M. had finished his history, I am sure I should have preferred it, and W. Clifford says the same of Fox. As I shall be on the right side of the gulf, I shall certainly see you this summer, dear Emma. I fear Tenby is too far for you to venture from Charles and the children. It would keep you anxious, and that neither of us could bear to see you. My very kind love to
12%	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 Madame Sismondi to her niece Elizabeth Wedgwood. SHREWSBURY, August 28 [1849]. I did enjoy surpassingly the greatest part of my N. Wales tour. Indeed I might say all. I sometimes felt as one intoxicated. I do not believe there is anybody in the world that can so completely turn the key on all that is in the heart as I can. I do not respect myself the more for it perhaps, but how gratefully do I accept the disposition. Emma [Allen] enjoyed her visit here thoroughly and that is a great pleasure
12%	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 Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Darwin. Wednesday [Summer, 1852]. I can never tell you how much I enjoyed my Lotte's visit. It made me as merry as in my childhood, when I told stories only to make myself laugh. Her charity to me made her talk, and you know her delicious laugh. Patty [Smith] says, You never told me what a woman Mrs Langton is! everybody speaks and knows what an agreeable woman Mrs Hensleigh Wedgwood is, but Mrs Langton, what a manner! how clever! Oh, she is a most
12%	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 ? 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 have been a delicious sight. I do not give myself the trouble of
12%	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 far the most important of all. Mamma desires that you will read the chapters [in Chapel] very well; and the dear old Mammy must be obeyed. It appears that there was again talk of our going to Tenby early in 1856. Fanny Allen wrote that she could not be away when Emma came, and mentioned Dr Dyster's delight at the thought of having C. Darwin here. He met him somewhere and was like many others enchanted with him. Later in the year Fanny Allen wrote from Leith Hill Place, 1 Life and Letters of
12%	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 where she was staying: I am sorry we lose Emma and Charles to-day. Charles is uncommonly agreeable, fresh and sparkling as the purest water. Fanny Allen in many letters during these years gives expression to her intense admiration for Florence Nightingale and her work in the Crimea. She wrote during a visit to the Hensleigh Wedgwoods in London (Oct., 1856): Sam Smith1 called one morning this week and gave some details of Florence N.'s visit to the Queen. He said no one could be kinder than the
12%	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 attended the wedding of a grand-niece, Isabella Alderson. Fanny Allen to her sister Emma Allen. Wednesday, Oct. 29th [1856]. Yesterday we were performing wedding guests from ten in the morning till three in the afternoon. It was impossible for any marriage to be better got up in an artistic point of view, and certainly the ceremony was very impressive. Over the altar was a large cross formed of white flowers. The whole church lighted with large wax lights in high candlesticks, and incense burning
12%	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 Down on the 6th November, 1856, aged 80. Forty or more years ago, she had spoken of the then little Emma Wedgwood as having the first place in her affection for children, and her love continued. My mother was beautifully faithful to her, but I think the rigidity of her aunt Sarah's character prevented ease of intercourse and therefore strong affection on my mother's part, although there was much to admire and respect in her. Charles Darwin to his sons William and George. DOWN, Thursday 13th
12%	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 , rather unfairly. It is curious to remember that the two subjects which he thought had done most to develop his mind were Paley's Evidences of Christianity and Euclid, both of which subjects are, I believe, now superseded as being obsolete. He valued more than any other honour the degree that was conferred on him here, and he spoke to me with pride and pleasure of walking, dressed in his scarlet gown, arm and arm with Dr. Cartmell, the Master of his old College. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Sunday
12%	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 fighting about the Origin in N. America even more than here, as I see by the printed reports. My dear old fellow, Your affect. Father, C. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to Lady Lyell. DOWN, BROMLEY, KENT, Aug. 28 [1860]. We have sent Frank to school, and as yet he has been quite happy there. George is in the first class, and a person of some authority there, so he is a great protection. But I think boys are better than they used to be, and he is sure to be liked by the masters from his industry and zeal
12%	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 present to me, and it is pleasant to dwell on it, for it was the same countenance and expression that has gone with her from her childhood, and has the stamp of an heavenly birth on it. She quotes for its truth Sir James Mackintosh's description of Charlotte as both gentle and strong, and speaks of loving her since first she saw her in her child's frock. To Elizabeth the loss was irreparable. She came first to Down, and Fanny Allen wrote that this would be her best solace, for Emma of all others
12%	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 somewhat better and we paid more than one visit to London. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. QUEEN ANNE STREET, Sunday [28 April, 1866]. MY DEAREST AUNT FANNY, Our last days here have been so pleasant and successful that I must write you a scrap. The greatest event was that Charles went last night to the Soir e at the Royal [page] 18
12%	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 scrap. Yours, E. D. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta at Cimiez. [LONDON], May 4 [1866]. Now for news. Monday I drove about and did one net of pictures, which is staring unwholesome work, and did not suit either of our heads, and a little shopping. In the evening Aunt Eliz. and Carry picked me up for the Philharmonic. It was our dear old G minor Mozart, and very charming, and we used to play it quite fast enough (and very well) and gave it quite the right air. A Mlle Mehlig played the P. F. in
12%	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 Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday, May 27th [1866]. I have just got yours to George. What an enchanting place St Jean is. I am so glad you had the luck to hit upon it. That is the sort of thing I admire more than any degree of Alps and passes. I despatched a hamper of kittens yesterday, and am not sorry to be free of their meals, poor little ducks. They would all sleep in the mowing machine, and did not look clean, so I was obliged to apologize for them. St Jean, her ideal of
12%	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 mother's constant love and care. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Sat. [1868]. MY DEAREST AUNT FANNY, Eliz. is so bent upon Tromer Lodge that I am sure she will get it, and I think she will be very comfortable there. She will have a little too much noise from the blacksmith's forge and the school-children at play; but they are not 1 At the Hensleigh Wedgwoods' in Cumberland Place. [page] 19
12%	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 and how thoroughly you have mastered my MS. I am pleased with this chapter now that it comes fresh to me. Your affectionate, and admiring and obedient father, C. D. All this is as clear as daylight. Your plan of putting corrections saves me a world of trouble, by just as much as it must have caused you. N.B. You can write, I see, a perfectly clear hand, as in all the corrections. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sat., Mar. 19 [1870]. F. is wonderfully set up by London, but so
12%	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 points a little exaggerated, for she was more remarkable for beauty of character than form. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. BASSET, SOUTHAMPTON [Aug., 1870]. We are very comfortable here with William in his little villa, which is cheerful though cockneyish. We talk and read of nothing but the war. I think L. Napoleon's fate might make a tragedy if he was not such a prosaic character himself. I can't help hoping that when he is kicked out which must happen soon Prussia may be persuaded to
12%	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 life, notwithstanding my stomach; and this I owe almost entirely to our dear old mother, who, as you know well, is as good as twice refined gold. Keep her as an example before your eyes, and then Litchfield will in future years worship and not only love you, as I worship our dear old mother. Farewell, my dear Etty. I shall not look at you as a really married woman until you are in your own house. It is the furniture which does the job. Farewell, Your affectionate Father, CHARLES DARWIN. Emma
12%	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 Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Tuesday [27 Sept., 1872]. Yesterday 3 sons went in different directions to look for a house for us, as I have persuaded Charles to leave home for a few weeks. The microscope work he has been doing with sundew has proved fatiguing and unwholesome, and he owns that he must have rest. Horace came home the fortunate one, like the youngest brother in a fairy tale. He has found nice lodgings on Sevenoaks Common, which is uncommonly pretty, and there is
12%	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 came more often to spend the evening and stay the night with them, going home after breakfast. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, BECKENHAM, KENT, Saturday [probably 1873]. MY DEAREST AUNT FANNY, I dare say Eliz. will tell you in her Sunday's letter that her new spectacles do not help her. She had so little hope of them that it is not much of a disappointment. I am glad to see that her sight serves her out of doors to do some gardening. I think the beauty of the flowers is very much
12%	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 every few days. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Friday [1873]. Charles has recovered wonderfully from his distressing attack of last week and is moderately at work. I think with invalids, unusual health goes before a fall. I hardly ever saw him so well as the Sunday and Monday before his attack. I am glad we have made a connection with a Dr, by having Dr A. Clark; and his opinion was very encouraging, that he could do Charles some good and that there was a great deal of work in him
12%	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 were having most lively games, such as he never saw in the day-time. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, A rainy Sunday [Autumn, 1873]. MY DEAREST AUNT F. We have only Leonard with us to-day and I have just sent down to Eliz. to persuade her to come up as it is dark and dismal. She is uncommonly well and cheerful. I have been looking over some very old letters of hers, and it is not a very cheerful occupation; one gets one's head too full of past times which always entails regrets, and I

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