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[date added later:] 93

14th May

Dear George, I was rejoiced to get Maud's letter to hear that if all goes well your anxiety is over.

Dr Moor quite sanctions mother's going on the 24th (Wednesday), I understand you believe there will be no difficulty as to the

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traffic on that day –

Dr M. proposes to come & sleep at Down on Wednesday night & that suits him better than Thursday so we had better stick to Wed. if possible. He will thus be at hand if she has any bad night, or any bad symptoms.

I mean to go with mother & she wrote & told me she shd

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like that, but I shd like to have either you or Richard & Richard will be at Camb ready to take your place if for any reason you cannot go.

It seems to me that in any case you need only come as far as Bickley – I hope it will be Bickley not Bromley so as to get out at a terminus.

I hope you will undertake writing to Capen & not let

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Bessy do that – (I think we had better arrange the bed ourselves as soon as we get there), of course some other conveyance will be wanted besides the 2 horse fly for mother.

Bessy's directions & dates are so queerly written that I shd be afraid of there being a blunder – Goodbye dear G – you will [illeg] without my [from page 1:] saying how full of sympathy I have felt for you all including Helen & how unhappy I have been thinking of the little beloved darling

yr HEL

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Feb 27 1881

In a letter from Father to you he writes "you will have heard of the triumph of the Ladies at Cambridge. The majority was so enormous that many men on both sides did not think it worth voting." [To G. H. Darwin   27-8 February [1881]]

Will you make me a note this to say what was in question & what they gained?

Also June 8th 81

"I am qu delighted at Bull's letter & have read it ever so many times. … It is really splendid, it is so evidently spontaneous.—

RTO What was Ball's letter about

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Will you make me a note?

At the end of the letter "Think Ball one of the best men who ever lived I wish he was going to the Astron Royal.

There is nothing else to throw light on it.

If get these in a fortnight or three weeks it will be in time or even a month