The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. [1871].08.26. Letter to Elizabeth Darwin (Bessy). CUL-DAR245.5. 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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Chalet de Villars ollon Vaud

Aug 26 Tuesday

My Dear Bessy,

I was just meaning to earn a letter from you when your pleasant one came in. […]

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& so I did nothing all day […]

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him in a health view […]

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two chairs are for a footstool. […]

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for shutting up windows. […]

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when I'm in a bit stronger. […]

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I hear of Father being mad about a new thing every letter. last time it was leaves & water whatever that may be & now it is bloom of fruit. It is funny how like the bloom on mountains is the bloom on fruit as I see it now in the Deut de Midi it looks exactly like.

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