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RECORD: Darwin, Henrietta Emma. [1868]. Letter to George Howard Darwin. CUL-DAR245.286. 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 for 3 March 1868, "Came to Q.A" and going to concerts on 7 March.

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6 Queen Anne

Wednesday Even [date added later:] ?68

Dear Geo

I've missed my proper day because I have & now I'm tired & have got to pack before Papa's & my early start tomorrow – Mama stays another day – It has been a most prosperous visit in every way -

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We have all done a great deal – Mama two concerts & a play to which the Clapham boys went to Papa has seen ever so many people.

I have got the Norwegian so many photos that I think if you get him one of Trin Coll. it will be as much

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money as need be spent on him. I hope you approve of the scheme tho' you never said so – will send Papa to represent science. We've got all the arts but music, & all the Royal Family. you've also never told me what you think of the Ed. marriage.

We've all been seeing

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him – He is very calm but I think seems quite content. […]

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