RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1866]. Letter to George Howard Darwin. CUL-DAR245.274. 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. Wednesday [added later:] 66  sent

Dear George

Papa says with his love that he strongly advises you for these 7 weeks when you are in really hard work to go to bed early & give up cruising from 1/2 past 11 upwards, that he is quite sure that not to say that it is a fact that any body can

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work much better on plenty of sleep, not today that you in hard work ought to have more sleep than I in idleness or than you wd finally do at other times, so this is his last will & testament that you'll be a wise boy if you follow his advice – Also tho' this is taking time by the forelock in truth Papa says when

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you come away at Easter after Exam. (& before you know the result?) tell somebody up in Cambridge to telegraph it to you here if you'll know it any quicker that way. The nearer you are to winning it the more exciting does it become.

yours ever

Dear George

H.E.D.


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