The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. [1883.05]. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR245.64. 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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1 G. Pl. Saturday [date added later:] (May'83)

Dearest Mother,

I am glad you're fixed the earliest train […]

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sure he was preparing too much […]

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I heard the faithful Jane asking for me […]

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[…] My stonecups in the wall must start their life in cow dung

~~Also if it was not a liberty, I shd of all things like a bit of Luiania cymbellaria from the wall going down to kitchen garden —~~ ~~Father used to be so fond of it —~~ There is such lots I don't think they could mind giving it. […]

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a special providence […]

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box lined with red silk […]

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(I wish we cd teach Dubsy [Bernard Darwin] that) […]

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they said the only pear […]

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to scandal, not to say privacy […]

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ball & I shd […]

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L.pool St to Cambridge […]

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H.E.L.

May 83

Susan Lushington

Birthday

acct of the children

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