From Emma Nixon 10 December 1879
15 Vernon Street | Derby
Decr. 10th. 1879
Dear Mr. Darwin
Please accept my best thanks for your great kindness in sending me a copy of “Erasmus Darwin”.1 I am only just returned home from London, so have had no time to look into the book, but I am looking forward with real pleasure to the time when I shall be able to sit down to read the Memoir, which to me will be full of interest. I did so rejoice when I heard you were going to write the character of that great man.
My Father2 always regreted no one had written the life & character of one so richly gifted with such splendid talents.
You will, I am sure, be sorry to hear Violetta Darwin is sinking Tapping has given great relief—but her days on Earth cannot now be many—3 She is most patient & resigned to the Will of her Heavenly Father.
I hope your health does not suffer from our present most severe weather?4
Again thanking you for your kind remembrance of me, and with kind regards | Believe me | Yours sincerely | Emma Nixon
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Violetta Darwin is near death.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12348
- From
- Emma Gisborne/Emma Nixon
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Derby
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 189–90
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12348,” accessed on 9 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12348.xml