The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1865.06]. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.26. 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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[1865.06] Monday Even Hengwrt, Dolgelley

Dear Mama, Today I gave for a holiday from reading […]

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thing unintelligible […]

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eff – Alfred Hope & I […]

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his neck - & just below us […]

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the hill which was very steep […]

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is always so prett. […]

Hope wants me to accuse Papa of havely attempted to deceive her grossly – He

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told her, as she believes, that he was here at the time the oak was split & Howell Peel picked out. Now Murray says this happened in the year 1440 – which are we to believe Murray or Papa as I presume Papa was not here then. […]

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afterwards. […] I am sorry to hear baddish account – I hope Papa may be better soon.

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very amusing […]

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