To the Darwin children 17 [January 1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Saturday evening 17th
My dear Children.
I have just found on my table your present of the magnificent fur-coat.2 If I have to travel in the winter, it will be a wonderful comfort, for the last time I went to London I did not get over the cold for 2 or 3 days.3 The coat, however, will never warm my body so much as your dear affection has warmed my heart.
My good dear children | Your affectionate Father | Charles Darwin
N.B. I should not be myself if I did not protest that you have all been shamefully extravagant to spend so much money over your old father, however deeply you may have pleased him.
To Henrietta— please send this on to William, who can send it to Lenny. No man knows where Horace is.— Bessy will be with you.—4
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12429
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick/Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 211: 1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12429,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12429.xml