From Catherine Darwin 29 October 1833
Shrewsbury
October 29th. | 1833.
My dearest Charles,
Your last letter was very interesting, & we were very much pleased to receive it & your Journal. I am very glad of this Parcel, as it gives Caroline an opportunity of sending you some little Books perhaps you will like. I can think of nothing to send you, except a little Chain; wch perhaps may be useful to hang an instrument to; it is with Susan’s purse. Enclosed is another letter from Mrs Williams, which I know you like better than any thing else. What a nice letter your’s was to her; She sent it here for us to read.— All your letters make one very melancholy in one respect, the enormous time that it seems your Voyage will keep you away. The original two years are over now; I wish to Heaven Capt Fitzroy had been strictly limited to time. We are going to read aloud your Journal to Papa—; it will do beautifully for Winter’s Evenings.
I think as yet it has been quite wonderful how regularly our Correspondence has gone on. I do not think there was any April Letter lost; by the order in which we write to you, I think the April letter must have left here the end of March.—1 I have really nothing in the world to tell you—so I must stop— Bless you dear Charley—ever yrs affecte | E. Catherine Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Finds his journal interesting; they will read it aloud to Papa on winter evenings. They all regret the long time the journey is taking.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-225
- From
- Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin/Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Shrewsbury
- Source of text
- DAR 204: 89
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 225,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-225.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 1