From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[6–7 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 11
Summary:
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
