From W. E. Darwin [5 and 8? April 1868]1
Southampton
Sunday
My dear Father,
I enclose a copy of some notes Langstaff has made from observation since receiving your letter to me. He does not know that they are of least use, but thought it just worth while sending you. I return you your letters so that you can see what you said in them.2
As to business, I am going over to see P at his house in a day or two when I have great hopes we shall get over the first difficulty as to money; as I had a talk with them last week and we very nearly came to terms. H. is away on leave, so that P. must be quite up to work.
I told A. that in your opinion, he made too much of the come down for him, & that everyone would simply look at it in the way of business, & I think it relieved him.3 I am going over to Embley tomorrow for dinner, & probably shall meet Dr Hooker.4 The Park will be looking delicious.
I think I am improved by my stay at Malvern, but I am not the thing yet, tho’ not much amiss.5
Langstaff will be very glad to observe anything else.
He has now had many opportunities of watching for blushing on the body, but has not seen a trace of it even with profuse blushing in the face.
Your affect son | W E Darwin
I have ordered the clips to be sent you.
Wednesday
I have had to keep back this letter till I could get Langstaff to translate some of his writing.
I will take a trip to Swanage the first day I can get—on a Sunday I could not see the [interiors] probably6
Thanks for Mama’s letter7
CD annotations
Footnotes
Summary
Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6149
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6149,” accessed on 13 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6149.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)