Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D.
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Condolences on death of JDH's daughter.
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Malvern Wells2
Sunday
My dear old Friend.
Your note is most pathetic I understand well your words: `wherever I go, she is there''.— I am so deeply glad that she did not suffer so much, as I feared was inevitable. This was to us with poor Annie the one great comfort.— Trust to me that time will do wonders, & without causing forgetfuless of your darling.
I am very weak & can write little.— My nervous system has failed & I am kept going only by repeated doses of brandy; but I am certainly better, much, & sickness stopped.—
God Bless you my best of friends.— Yours affect | C. Darwin
P.S. | I must add that I shall be grateful for a line whenever you are inclined to write.
My head swims badly so no more.—
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The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 October 1863. In 1863, 4 October was a Sunday. - +
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CD was resident in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, while undergoing treatment at James Smith Ayerst's hydropathic establishment (see `Journal' (Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). - +
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Letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 October 1863. Hooker had written concerning the death of his six-year-old daughter, Maria Elizabeth Hooker. - +
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Anne Elizabeth Darwin, the Darwins' eldest daughter, had died aged 10 in 1851 (see Correspondence vol. 5).