To Elizabeth Mary Thorley 26 April [1851]
Down | Farnboro | Kent
Ap 26.
Dear Mrs Thorley
I must beg permission to express to you our deep obligation to your daughter & our most earnest hope that her health may not be injured by her exertions I hope it will not appear presumptuous in me to say that her conduct struck me as throughout quite admirable. I never saw her once [yield] to her feelings as long as self restraint & exertion were of any use— her judgment & good sense never failed: her kindness, her devotion to our poor child could hardly have been excelled by that of a mother
Such conduct will, I trust hereafter be in some degree rewarded by the satisfaction your daughter must ever feel when she looks back at her exertions to save & comfort our poor dear dying child. I earnestly hope that her health will be pretty soon established. My wife joins in kindest remembrance to yourself
Pray believe me &c
Summary
Expresses gratitude to Mrs T’s daughter for devotion to his daughter in final illness.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1422
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Elizabeth Mary Thorley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 73
- Physical description
- C 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1422,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1422.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5