To Emma Darwin [23 April 1851]
[Malvern]
Wednesday
My dear dearest Emma
I pray God Fanny’s note may have prepared you. She went to her final sleep most tranquilly, most sweetly at 12 oclock today. Our poor dear dear child has had a very short life but I trust happy, & God only knows what miseries might have been in store for her. She expired without a sigh. How desolate it makes one to think of her frank cordial manners. I am so thankful for the daguerreotype.1 I cannot remember ever seeing the dear child naughty. God bless her. We must be more & more to each other my dear wife— Do what you can to bear up & think how invariably kind & tender you have been to her.— I am in bed not very well with my stomach. When I shall return I cannot yet say. My own poor dear dear wife.
C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Tells of Anne’s death.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1412
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- Sent from
- Malvern
- Source of text
- DAR 210.13: 28
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1412,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1412.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5