To John Price 3 September [1881]1
Down. | Beckenham Kent.
Sep: 3.
My dear Price.
I thank you for your kind & sympathetic letter2 My brothers death is a great loss to all of us, especially to all my children, as his kindness & affection was unbounded.—3 He had become, I think, quite weary of life;—& thank God his suffering at the close was not severe & very short.
I am sorry that I cannot answer your question about the Dotterells, for my memory is a very poor one for small past events.— I remember going with you & Erasmus on ponies a long excursion to some extraordinary wild mountainous scenery but I can remember no more.4
We were all much pleased & interested by your friend Mrs Smith at Ullswater but I did not then know that she was your friend.5
I wish that you had told me something about your own health. & I most truly hope that you suffer less than formerly.
My health is better than it was but I shall never be fit for any great exertion.
My dear Price, | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.
Cannot answer question about dotterels.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13315
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Price
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 282
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13315,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13315.xml