To W. E. Darwin [November 1857]1
Thursday Evening
My dear William
I wrote a few days since to Mr Wilson, the Tutor, near Norwich & got an answer this morning saying that his house was full & he could not receive you.2 I am extremely much provoked that I did not write sooner.— I have written this morning to Mr Mayor to ask if he could advise any one else.3 I have been a “muff” about the affair.—
Your last note was a very nice one, & written very well, thanks to my jobation to you.— The Grey mare is all right & we have taken her up to get her ready for you.— She has been very seldom in the tax-cart, for she makes such a fuss in starting, that she is hardly safe; & I do not think Parslow much likes riding her,4 so I am inclined to think we had better sell her after the holidays.— I am glad to hear you are going on with your painting, it so nice & useful an amusement. Aunt Catherine has got a small house in Regents’ Park, in York Terrace, on the opposite side to Cumberland Terrace,5 & she proposes having you for a visitor for a fortnight & giving you some good lessons from some good master.6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Summary
Is trying to find a tutor for WED.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2095
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 21
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2095,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2095.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6