To Alfred Wrigley [after 12 March 1868]1
I hope you will ex my writing thus again.2 Horace has never said or hinted it to me [rest assured] that you had hurt his feelings in any way;3 on the contrary I remember that he distinctly said that you had been very kind in attending to him & had brought him on much in [studying].— I do not [2 words illeg] understand for his disposition is rather reserved & [peculiar] why he wishes to leave school; but the wish has been persistent & I have always followed, hitherto with [illeg] my sons wishes. I freely own I have always felt doubtful about a private tutor for him— And this leads me to add, that I remember making a similar remark together with the 2 other sentences quoted before, in my letter to you, which no doubt was lost by the post-off. Mrs D. also believes that she remembers my writing shortly before the Boys return.—4 I hope that you will believe that I did write for it wd have been an unpardonable [rudery] not to have written a second note, in [addition] to that which you enclosed [earlier],5 before removing my son— This note requires no acknowledgment & is written only for my own satisfaction
Footnotes
Summary
Assures AW he has not hurt Horace’s feelings. CD has always been doubtful about a private tutor for Horace. Fears a letter [giving notice of removal] was lost in the post.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6008
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred Wrigley
- Sent from
- London, Chester Place, 4
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 182v
- Physical description
- ADraft 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6008,” accessed on 10 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6008.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16