To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]1
Down
Jan 11th
My dear Horace
Everybody has seen the enclosed except William so please forward it to him immediately.—2
I suppose that you & Ida are too high in the sky to care for base money.3
Your affect. | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to the Darwin children, 10 January 1880.
William Erasmus Darwin. The enclosure was the letter to the Darwin children, 10 January 1880.
Horace had married Ida Farrer on 3 January 1880 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12415
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Horace Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 7
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12415,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12415.xml
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