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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