RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. [1883.04].20. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.263. 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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Finished on (Ap) 20th.

Dearest Mother

Many thanks for enclosures – May I keep them to take to Ellen next time? […]

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come today – We shall be a housefull! […]

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Dubba's [Bernard Darwin] cold is so bad I won't take out tickets for one more day for you to send me word again how he is. Dubba asked me the other day when Lords & Ladies were out - & then explained he remembered getting them the day Baba died & how could it had been

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if Baba had died in March – I was thinking on the 19th how little anniversarys are to me & here in London I don't feel what you say about the vegetation – But I always think in this dry sunny weather of some of those days when you used to get to that little encampmeur in the orchard & the

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crocuses were so wide opened. […]

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I wonder how m. […]

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Times abt the Parnell letter […]

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satisfied. Godfrey seems better […]


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