From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [4 January 1882]

My dear George

I hope you will get thro' your work without being knocked up.

We have received the inscrip. Fr. is ready to blow his brains out on the question of adding F.R.S. to the father's name & F is a little against it as D^r D. was not a scientific man & w^d not have been F.R.S. now-a-days. We will see what W^m says—

Such a lovely day—

We liked Ella very much. She slept here & Bessy went a walk w. her. She seems anxious & careful about M^rs M's. & said that you were one of the few persons her mother liked to see. She gets up at 5 to work at the M.S. w. is most unwholesome, & finds herself able to do very little.

She brought particular enquiries about you from her mother—

M^r & M^rs Norman called yesterday— F's call there made such an impression on M^r N. he can't forget it. I find She & I are the same age 73— we each thought the other younger.— She seems to have very much our impression of M^r Sydney Buxton "Yes Conny brought him in— he looked cold & cross & shy"— & M^r N. said of his letters in the Times that he had better let that alone— It is provoking for that v. engaging girl to have taken up w. such a very unpleasing man—

Yours my dear George | E. D

F. is doing his last hours work at the microscope & I am glad— it tires him so much.