To S. A. Cecil 8 June 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. [Hollycombe, Hampshire.]
June 8th. 1876.
Dear Lord Sackville Cecil
I have just heard that my sister has arrived safely at Leith Hill Place; & I hope that you will allow me to thank you from my heart for your unbounded kindness. She was so timid that I believe she would not (even if she could) have gone by a special train, had it not been for your advice & intervention. Whether she will ever recover is very doubtful after so terrible an illness, but her husband is old & delicate, & if he had been taken ill in the same small sea-side villa, it would have killed her with distress.1
I remain, my dear Lord | Yours gratefully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10535H
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Sackville Arthur Cecil
- Sent from
- [Hollycombe]
- Source of text
- Hermitage Fine Art, Monaco (dealers) (7–8 July 2020, lot 751)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10535H,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10535H.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
