My dear Mr Darwin,

I return the plans marked as well as I can.¹ But what a treacherous thing is memory. I should have put the Upper Trench at the Eastern boundary of the 4^th room. But that cannot be: it was not excavated till October, and you were here in August. The one trench must have been where I have put the X X. at the eastern end of the first room. The other trench I cannot remember: If parallel to the first it must have been about [CROSS IN CIRCLE] to [CROSS IN CIRCLE]: if at right angles probably next to the wall O to O.

The compass bearing in the printed plan is wrong. Allowing for magnetic pole the walls of the building run nearly due N & S & E & W— the hedge running E & W.²

The ground slopes from E to W

I will send you my rough notes of what was done at the time in a copy book.³

What is history & what are records when we are so much puzzled by what we did ourselves three years ago?

I have been astounded lately by the quantity which antiquarians manage to write about Avebury Sibbury and Silchester,⁴ as compared to the next to nothing which they know.

Effie has Mrs. Ds kind note this morning: and feels sure that if she can be of use or comfort she will be sent for— but the answer is what we looked for.⁵ Indeed there is little to be done, and what we have to hope is as little suffering as possible.

Ida & Horace come this ev^g which is very nice as Tom will be here too.⁶

Ever yrs sincerely | T H Farrer

No worm casts on the concrete this morning. Wise worms to keep indoors this weather!

I return your note as you may like to see your own questions—⁷ Please send it back to me.