To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]1
[Down]
know where Long Stratton is.— I have been much pleased at the way Mayor speaks of you.—2 It seems very odd not having you rushing up & down the House with your Photographs & very dirty hands.—3 Mamma has been today & yesterday in London to see Aunt Eliza, (who seems very weak & ill),4 but she comes back tonight. By the way I think, it not amiss that you did not take your Photography, as you wd. have had no time for school work; but it was very kind in Miss Mayor offering a room.— The foundations are laid out for new rooms, & on Monday the Bricklayers begin in earnest.— the room looks jolly & big, & I often feel dreadfully ashamed of my extravagance.5 How fond Lenny is of metaphors, which he uses so unconsciously, I heard him this morning in sand-walk wood shouting “here is a tree full of nuts—oh such a lot—they are all crushed overboard.”6
Good Bye my dear old Gulielmus
Your’ affect. Father | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Rugby School register. 4 vols. Rugby: George Over. 1933–57.
Summary
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1619
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 17
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1619,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1619.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6