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To Stephen Paul Engleheart?   [April 1867?]1

Down

Tuesday Evening

My dear Sir

As Leonard will go to school tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon will you be so kind as to let us have the note, properly addressed, about the sling.—2 His arm keeps quite comfortable.—

Your’s very faithfully | & obliged | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The date is conjectured from a reference to ‘Lenny’s arm’ in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 22 April 1867. Stephen Engleheart was the village physician in Down and was frequently consulted by the Darwin family (Freeman 1978).
2
Leonard Darwin was a pupil at Clapham Grammar School in South London (M. Keynes 1943).

Bibliography

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

Keynes, Margaret. 1943. Leonard Darwin, 1850–1943. Cambridge: privately printed at Cambridge University Press.

Summary

Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-5385
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Stephen Paul Engleheart
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Provenance unknown
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5385,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5385.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15

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