To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 2d.
My dear Innes
I am heartily glad to say that Quiz arrived last night safe & sound (but with a cough) & has been running about the house quite happy & very polite to every human being, including Cats.—2 Hearty thanks for your present.— Also for your two notes.—3 We most sincerely wish wish you all the happiness which can be expected in this world. Very glad we should be to see you here; but I think you will find yourself so well suited to your new career, that you will remain.4
We are a sick house with 3 Boys in bed with very bad feverish colds,5 so no more at present, except kind remembrances to Mrs. Innes & Johny, the young Laird—6
Ever my dear Innes | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3371
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Brodie Innes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3371,” accessed on 28 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3371.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10