To Hensleigh and Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 1 May [1851]
Down
May 1st.
My dear Hensleigh.
Many thanks for the account & all the trouble you have so kindly taken: I enclose a cheque for the £12’ s 2’ d 0.—1
Also thanks for the Grammar.—2 My kindest love to Fanny.
Yours affectionately | C. Darwin My dearest Fanny
We were both gratified to hear of dear little Effie’s tears. How happy they used to be together! It is Effie’s first Sorrow & the loss of one so near her age brings it more before her mind.3 I think she will like to possess some little keepsake out of poor Annie’s treasures. She was always the one Annie loved best. Thank you dearest Fanny for offering to come down. I think I shall value the sight of you more after my confinement, but whenever it is, I shall find it the greatest comfort to speak to you about all that has passed. Thank my dear Aunt F. for her most kind little note. I do hope she is sure to be with us before very long or I should be truly vexed that she had turned away from the door that evening. I had some hopes my troubles were beginning yesterday but it was a false alarm. It will be a very soothing occupation looking after a young baby. My best love to my dear Hensleigh. | E. D.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1426
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh/Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1426,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1426.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
