To Saba Holland 4 December [1854]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Dec 4th
Dear Lady Holland
I really hardly know how to thank you sufficiently for your most kind provisional present— I will try & be worthy of it— I will keep them [looking] as tidy as possible that if required, [they] may be returned looking truly fresh & new.—2
It shall not go out of my House except to Elizabeth Wedgwood, and, I am sure you will allow me to add my aunt Mrs. S. Wedgwood, who lives in this village, & who is the most scrupulous person in the world, as I think Sir Henry must know her well enough, to have perceived.3
Pray believe me, with | my sincerest thanks | Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Holland, Saba. 1855. A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith … With a selection from his letters, edited by Mrs. Austin. 2 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Summary
Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1610F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Saba Smith/Saba Holland
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1610F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1610F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
