My dear old Horace

The advantage of a garden, if you have children & even without these appendages is so great, combined with the house itself suiting you & having a good landlord, that I if I were in your place, I w^d. wait for the chance of getting it.² For such advantages it w^d be worth while to economise in some other way; though this is a wicked line of argument & could not have been expected from your honoured & stingy old father.—

Perhaps the Belvoir House may not be let.³ My best of loves to Ida.

Your affect. Father | Ch. Darwin