To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]1
The Ridge, Hartfield, | Tonbridge Wells
July 12th
My dear Falconer
I thank you for your most interesting note.2 The facts are really grand. We have had a melancholy household for some time; as my eldest girl has been very ill for a long time and we have brought her here for a change.3 I have been bad enough of late, and have not been in London for an age. Whenever I do come I must pay you a visit and have one of those chats with you, which I so much enjoy. But our plans are all uncertain being dependent on my daughter’s health.
I must say I do heartily enjoy Owen having had a good setting down—his arrogance and malignity are too bad.
My good old friend | Yours most truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.
CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2865
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Falconer
- Sent from
- Wedgwood, S. E. (b) Hartfield
- Source of text
- DAR 144
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2865,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2865.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
