From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [13 January 1882]

My dear George

I was very glad to get your letter & now the end is so near I don't expect you will knock up— I look upon Jamaica as certain, & as there is no yellow fever there, you can't hear any thing bad bout it—

Leslie Stephen writes about M^r Graham, & I don't think he has very much chance— She speaks of the noise the tramps made on Sunday as very striking, & does not say that any of them were ill after their wet walk— M^rs Dickie Ruck knows about these wicked Morewoods. The eldest brother whom they $\frac{1}{2}$ killed is sane & good—

the others inherit madness & wickedness from Lord Byrons family— his mother I suppose.

Talking of inheritance M^rs Sam. Ashburner's brother has just killed himself, the 3^rd brother who has done so— It is terrible for the family— They must also feel doomed— Bessy is spending a few days with M^rs Ogle— whom she likes— W^m says "What a capital letter of G. in Nature"—

Goodbye my dear old man | E. D.

I wonder when you will come again—