RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1864].07.13. Letter to George Howard Darwin. CUL-DAR245.267. 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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Down, Bromley, Kent
Wednesday July 13th [1864]
Dear George – your letter has just come & though not too long was very welcomed. […]
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It is not such a splendid poem as Faust […] I came home only to find an invite to Mrs Lubs for a few days which will be particularly nice. I have always wanted
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to know her – when she wrote they were in a grt state about this murder of the head clerk Mr Briggs in a 1st class railway carriage – it must all have been done in 5 min. wh. makes it 10 times more extraordinary. I'm afraid that by having no traces yet they will never find it.
Papa & S are privately convinced that it was Black Barney who did it. […]
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[…] Papa is well & took a precious walk yesterday all by orchis bank & up Hangrove steep path. […]
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