They have been having a very gay time. Tells of "Redcoats & Shootables" and several mutual friends.

Writes of the last part of their lively stay at Brighton and three days in London.

None of CD’s sisters can come to enliven the "truly awful" tranquillity at the Forest [Woodhouse].

Caroline and Catherine Darwin were at the Forest a few days last week and Susan Darwin comes the next day. Mentions other relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

She encloses a pin with "genuine hair" and is flattered that it will go around the world with CD.

Gives CD an "account of my life and adventures since we parted" and news of her family.

Invites CD to dine with them on Wednesday, since she will have few more opportunities of seeing "the original old Charles Darwin".

Thanks for copy of Expression.

Reminiscences of their youth.

Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.

A laudatory reference in the Times [19 Nov 1880, p. 4] impels her to write after many years. Hopes to see him.

Writes of the pleasure of seeing him again.

Condolences on death of Erasmus.