Letter
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Summary
Compliments DO on his wealth of information.
Henrietta’s relapse.
Thanks for extract on Drosera.
Transcription
15 Marine Parade | Eastbourne
23d.
My dear Mr Oliver.
What wealth of knowledge you have!— But I have hardly read the extract about Drosera;f2 as we are in much distress, my poor eldest daughter has had a relapse.f3 We cannot return on 26th to Down.— Excuse me at present | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
- f1
- Dated by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s relapse (see n. 3, below).
- f2
- See preceding letter.
- f3
- From entries in Emma Darwin’s diary, it appears that Henrietta Emma Darwin became ill with a stomach complaint late on Sunday night, 21 October 1860, and experienced intermittent attacks of vomiting for over a week.