From Mary Susan Mostyn Owen 2 February [1870]1
Astley— Shrewsbury
Feb 2d
My dear Uncle Charles—
You will be surprised at receiving a letter from me, but I am writing to ask a favour of you.—
Would you have any objection to being God-father to our small child no 3? it would be very kind of you if you have none, but I know some people do object, for I have received a refusal about it— I hope you won’t mind my asking you, for it really is but a form after all— I hope you & Aunt Emma are pretty well, I hear of you occassionally from the Leith Hill girls—2 they tell me that Henrietta is abroad—3
With best love to yourself & Aunt Emma
Believe me | Yr. affcate. niece | M. M. Owen.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]
Summary
Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7094
- From
- Mary Susan Parker/Mary Susan Mostyn Owen
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Astley, Shrewsbury
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 45
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7094,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7094.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
