To John Stevens Henslow 25 January [1858]
Down Bromley Kent
Jany. 25th
My dear Henslow
I received the day before yesterday the appendix to the allotment Report & I am glad to see how eminently successful your men have been.—1 I have not
written to you, as I thought it would only have troubled & I was very sure that you need not be told how sincerely & deeply I have sympathised with you,—to whom I shall ever owe so much.2 Those old days when I used as an undergraduate to be so much at your house were certainly amongst the most happy & best days which I have ever spent. Never shall I forget to end of my life the uniform & very great kindness of poor dear Mrs. Henslow to me.—3 I hope you are all well & that your health is pretty good: I have heard not a very good account of your appearance.—4 I beg you not to think of answering this note.
My dear friend & most kind old master | Believe me | Yours affectionately |Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Henslow, John Stevens. [1858]. Appendix to Hitcham allotment report for 1857. Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Russell-Gebbett, Jean. 1977. Henslow of Hitcham: botanist, educationalist and clergyman. Lavenham, Suffolk: Terence Dalton.
Summary
Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2207
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Stevens Henslow
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 93: A50–1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2207,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2207.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
