Dear Sir,

My wife and I, beg to present you our very best wishes for your birthday, and hope that it may return always in health and happiness. Enclosed the photograph of our little Darwin.²

He is now two years old, and a very good, intelligent, and thoroughly healthy child. He speaks already and takes his meals without help.

In the upper chaw he has got 5. cutting-teeth instead of 4., but they stand regularly and ar⁠⟨⁠e⁠⟩⁠ as nice and good as could be⁠⟨⁠.⁠⟩⁠

Dear Sir, | Your most obedient servant | F. T. C. Beger & wife

Charles Darwin, Esq^re. M.A. F.R.S. | Down,