To Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 18 [August 1854]1
Down.
18th.
My dear Fanny
We are infinitely obliged to you, after all your fatigue, writing to us about poor dear old Erasmus’ illness.— We had heard nothing of it. As he seemed somewhat better when you wrote, I will not doubt that the worst is over, for I think a Fever hardly ever lulls when it once begins. But it must pull him down terribly, weak as he always is.— I shd. very much like to hear pretty soon ever so briefly. I daresay Caroline or Jos. would find time to write a line.— You must all have been very much frightened.2
Good bye my dear Fanny, how many you have aided in illness. I shall never forget the comfort you were once to me, My dear Fanny.—3
C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista.
Summary
Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1547
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh/Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1547,” accessed on 15 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1547.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5