The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. [1871.09.] Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.45. 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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Imp. Hotel Dover

[date added later:] Sept 71

Sunday

Dearest Mother, Your two letters have been most sweet to me tho' your last contains two pieces of bad news – that F. is not so well & that Lady L. means to give me a present.

I think it is clear she must have had some sort of prick with regard to me.

Well, our two paths will only cross occasionally -

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I like the pleos very much […]

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to be returned […]

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My own darling mother – Now I've left you I begin only just begin to appreciate yours & Father's love – all these 28 years of tender loving care – I can't write about it but I do think of it & know how blessed amongst women I am to have had such a youth & childhood. We shall certainly come on Monday.

Best of loves to F & Bessy

yours ever

Harriet Litchfield

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)