From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]1
Down
Dear Father
It is fine news about Frankland. I will get the earth this afternoon I expect the unburnt will be the best after all, confound all that brick making.2
I have nearly done the Food bodies paper as far as Acacia goes.3 Amy has made a duplicate dummy printing machine & we have races on them (in which I win). I find one learns very quick where to dab down ones fingers I am pining for the real machine.4 Hen was very well yesterday.5
I hope you go on keeping well, & mother too | Yrs affec | FD
Amy sends her love
Amy says it is very unfair my saying I win the races, because I have practiced most
Footnotes
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10488F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 24
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10488F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10488F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24