RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1868]. Letter to George Howard Darwin. CUL-DAR245.283. 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 [date added later:] 1868
Dear Geo.
This is a bad beginning of the compact isn't it & after you had made such a good start too & written me a sheet & a half. I'm sorry to hear you know such lots of men – it's a bad omen. I can quite understand your feelings about Strick. He seems to be such a passive nature – I think one wd feel
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stifled if you ever to live long with him. […]
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not game for it […]
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bathes. We are asking Ernest & the Edmunds for the ball on the 14th. I wish you wd come here & meet them.
Do, that is an angel. Mama will bribe you by paying for your journey. I don't suppose Frank wd dream of coming but Mama says I must say that Papa wd be horrified if he did. Jemmy [Horace] went off into space today. He was going by one of those trains which start but don't arrive
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