The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. [1883]. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.61. 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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5 Old Quebec St

Friday [1883]

It was so nice to see yr handwriting & your letter makes me hope you are tolerably in yr old level –

I find life rather hard work & nearly died at 31- […]

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we had something […]

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I'm glad your dinner was a success – but how I agree with you about all the talk now – I used so dreadfully to want to stop behind with men in old days, when they used to cluster round Father.

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I am so stupid dear mother I can't write & I have not got a novel quite down to my level – […]

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