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RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1865.06].15. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.25. 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.

Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that Henrietta went to Wales on 29 May 1865 and returned to Down on 22 June 1865.

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Hengwrt Dolgelley Thursday 15th [June 1865]

Dearest Mamy – I didn't write yesterday for a reason which I will now detail to you. […]

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alone together. We found a very amicable waiter at the inn who didn't frighten us & we ordered ourselves tea & chops & set out. The railway is a terrible take off to Barmouth it goes right thro' the town – our beginning was not very successful. We made ourselves very cross by trying to get on the sands & finding them like a scorching fiery furnace so

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we decided to mount the hill & after grt. difficulty & a longish mount we found a heavenly city had under a rock where, having the innumerable horseflys, we were in peace & shade – but a cow or bull came & looked at us & another to follow us & so we straight way fled & finding it continued to follow & there being no stone walls we rushed on to the road. It is all

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Papa's fault – he shdn't have told us such awful stories. […]

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