From Henrietta Emma Darwin [2 August 1857]1
Sunday
My own dear Papa
I look forward with such pleasure to coming home & seeing you all again.2 Thank you for your very nice letter. It seems a long time since I was at home, it was 9 weeks on Friday. I am very sorry to hear of Mama’s headache.
I don’t know whether I told you that Mr. Crawford is gone & Mr. Butterworth come back. There is a Mr. Beh come with a very red face but he is not a patient. I believe the Combes go on Monday. This ought to be the full season but it is very empty, only 8
I have very nearly done the “War Trail”3 & I’ve done one of the vols of Miss Strickland4 so I hope Mama has got plenty of books.
I must go out now so Goodbye My dear Papa | Yours | H E D
I feel very well today, but I can’t do much walking.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Reid, Mayne. 1857. The war-trail; or, the hunt of the wild horse. London.
Summary
Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2131A
- From
- Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Moor Park
- Source of text
- DAR 245: 1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2131A,” accessed on 21 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2131A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6