From Emma Darwin [19 April 1851]
Down
Sat. | past 4.
My dearest N.1
The message is just arrived. What happiness! How I do thank God! but I will not feel too hopeful. I was in the garden looking at my poor darling’s little garden to find a flower of hers when John Griffith’s2 drove up. Give my best love to dear Fanny & Catherine.3 The latter & Brodie4 must want some repose. We shall hear nothing more now till Monday but I shall wait very well now.
John takes this back with him but I don’t know whether it will be too late.
I hardly dare think of such happiness. I hope you will sleep tonight my own.
May the dreadful sickness keep off our child
Goodbye. | E.D
Footnotes
Bibliography
Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915.
Summary
Gives her reactions to CD’s reports on Anne’s health.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1405
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.13: 14
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1405,” accessed on 22 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1405.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
