To Vernon Lushington 24 July [1871]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 24th
My dear Mr. Lushington
Many thanks for the official Turtle Soup—which some of us had never tasted & none of us for very many years. It was very good—probatum est, for I had two helps.—1
I ought to feel grateful to you & Mrs. Lushington for your aid in giving us a son-in-law, whom we have every reason to be pleased with & to be proud of.—2 But I confess that I have so much selfishness in my nature that I cannot yet endure to think of the loss which Henrietta will to us. My wife like a true & good woman rejoices, & can sympathise with her whole heart with our daughter’s happiness.
Most truly yours | Ch. Darwin
When a sulky child “pouts” or “makes a snout” or “makes a lip”, what is the form of the protruded lips? do they become at all tubular? How far do they protrude, relatively to the nose? Does the lower lip project beyond the upper lip.? Does the child generally make any sort of noise whilst pouting? Does the child frown at same time? Any such or other particulars with age of child or children.—3
Do Keep this as I have no copy
Footnotes
Bibliography
Beeton, Isabella Mary. 1869. Mrs Beeton’s book of household management. London: Ward, Lock & Tylor.
Browne, Janet. 2002. Charles Darwin. The power of place. Volume II of a biography. London: Pimlico.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Thanks for providing turtle soup.
Not quite so sure he thanks VL for introducing Richard Buckley Litchfield into the Darwin family to be CD’s son-in-law.
Asks about the lip position of a pouting child.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7880F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Vernon Lushington
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JY 25 71
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7880F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
