To W. E. Darwin 21 and 22 April [1861?]1
Down.
Ap 21d
My dear W.
I return the enclosed. It seems a most wonderful cure, & if all is really as it appears, what thousands of lives this precious doctor has cost by not revealing his secret.2
Your affect.— | C. Darwin
It is now late in evening & Henrietta has had a much better day.—
22d 12o | Henrietta goes on splendidly3
Footnotes
The date is suggested by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s illness (see n. 3, below).
The reference has not been traced.
This sentence was added in pencil. Emma Darwin’s diary for 1861 is full of references early in the year to Henrietta’s progress in recuperating from the illness she had been suffering from for many months (see letters to Asa Gray, 23 [January 1861] and to W. E. Darwin, [24 January 1861]). On both 21 and 22 April 1861, Emma recorded that Henrietta had a ‘good day’.
Summary
Returns [an unspecified] enclosure referring to "a most wonderful cure".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3124
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 62
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3124,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3124.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
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