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From Caroline and Catherine Darwin   28 January [1835]

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Concerned over CD’s illness. His father strongly urges him to come home lest his health be ruined.

News of family and friends.

Twelve Tories elected in Shropshire.

Author:  Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Jan [1835]
Classmark:  DAR 97 (ser. 2): 16–18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-266

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  • 12 Tory Members who are called Lord Powis’s Twelve Apostles. Toryism rages in Shropshire more than ever, and there certainly has been a slight re-action in favor of the Tories over the Country; in general though, the Reformers are much stronger, and will, I trust soon rout out Sir Robert Peel, and his odious Ministry. — Edward Holland is returned as Member for East Worcestershire. — I have not yet told you what nice accounts have been received of the Langtons; they arrived at Madeira, the 16 th of December, after only 10  …