To A. S. Horner 25 May [1851]1
Down Farnboro’ Kent
May 25th.
My dear Mrs. Horner
We are truly grateful to you & all your party for your most kind sympathy.2 As you ask after Emma, I write a line to say that she & Baby are essentially going on perfectly well, but she does not recover her strength or spirits so quickly as I could wish.3 In the profound quietudes of Down all your schemes & movements seem awfully bustling: I hope that your spirite⟨d⟩ tour will answer in every respect, & that directly on your return you may hear from the Cape. You will no doubt feel much this the first separation: pray give my very kind remembrances to Katharine & Capt. Lyell.4
Emma desires me to send her affectionate love to you & all your party.—
Pray believe me | Dear Mrs Horner | Yours truly & gratefully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lyell, Katharine Murray, ed. 1890. Memoir of Leonard Horner … consisting of letters to his family and from some of his friends. 2 vols. London: privately printed.
Summary
Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1428F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Anne Susanna Lloyd/Anne Susanna Horner
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1428F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1428F.xml