RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. 1889.09.22. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.141. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR245 contains correspondence and papers of Henrietta Emma Darwin, later Litchfield.


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Maison Kriegelstein

Sept 22.89

Dearest Mother,

Tiresome old Engelmann has never been today. […]

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till Friday […]

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4 I get quite normal […]

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all the vine leaves […]

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tunes. Ich grolle nicht came in with fine effect […]

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Its been too cold & ugly to drive, & so music & a little stumping up & down […]

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[…] I've been reading Dr Thorne. If you haven't read it lately I advise you to read it again. I've such a vivid feeling of Father in it. I think I must have either read it to him or heard it read – I remember his enjoying the parts about old Scatcherd & Dr Thorne –

You must mind & tell me

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about dear old Dubbins […]


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