Darwin, C. S. to Wedgwood, S. E. (b)
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CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.
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[Shrewsbury] Wednesday My dear Elizabeth
Charles is come home—so little altered in looks from what he was five years
ago & not a bit changed his own dear self—he had landed at Falmouth on
Sunday evening & travelled night & day till he came to Shrewsbury late
last night— We heard nothing of him till this morning when he walked in just
before breakfast— We have had the very happiest morning—poor Charles
so full of affection & delight at seeing my Father looking so well &
being with us all again— his hatred of the sea is as intense as even I can
wish—arriving at its climax by a storm on the Bay of Biscay. He is looking
very thin —but well— he was so much pleased
by finding your & Charlottes kind notes ready to receive him I shall indeed
enjoy my dear Eliz going to Maer with him, how happy he will be to see you all
again— When I began this letter I did not know he would feel tranquil enough
to write himself, but he said he must be the first to tell Uncle Jos of his
arrival— he feels so very grateful to Uncle Jos & you all &
has been asking about every one of you— he must go to London to be able to be
on the spot when his things are taken out of the Beagle so I am afraid he will certainly
be gone before A
Good bye dear Eliz it is pleasant to wr<ite to> those who sympathize so
entirely with us Y
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A `Weighing Account' book kept by CD's father and later by Josiah Wedgwood III records CD's height and weight as of 7 October 1836 as `5 ft, 113 8 1 4