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RECORD: Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. n.d. Memento box with various objects. EH88422572. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of English Heritage (Down House Collection) and William Huxley Darwin. Particular thanks are due to Sabrina Villani for generously helping with access to Darwin's papers and much other invaluabe assistance with the records of Down House and undertaking to facilitate important assistance by the dedicated group of Down House volunteers.

[daguerreotype of Henrietta Darwin in case, with label:]

Henrietta 1861

8 ¾

[letter to Emma Darwin]

My dear

Mama Its dreadful fun here we are going a ramble today. The [remainder folded]

[key and label]

Annie's red box

[loose slip]

Hair of

Mrs Josiah Wedgwood of Maer

Elisabeth Wedgwood
(her daughter)

Mary Eleanor Darwin

Born & died 1842

[loose slip by Darwin]

W.E. Darwin

July 1841. 19 months

[loose slip by Darwin]

Henrietta

Mar 15 1845

18 months

[loose slip by Darwin]

Mary Eleanor

Sunday Oct 16th 1842

born Sept 23 x [words illeg]

[envelope with mourning border]

My Mother's Hair

(Emma Darwin's hair)

[7 loose slips with child's writing, Darwin drafts on versos]

[Copy of 'The Pussey Cats' Love letters [1934]]

[two mechanical pencils, one gold, one silver]

[3 ivory animal figurines]

[six sea shells]

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