From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin 19 April [1894]

My dear George

I hear that Maud had a very comf. account of you yesterday— I am glad that D^r Eccles has given way about the quantity of your food— I had a nice visit from M^rs J. W. yesterday   She seems perfectly happy about Edward who is studying medicine very hard, & so I believe he is pleasanter than he looks—

I have been very cross over last night's ministerial majority on the repeal of the coercion act— The Unionist party wants whipping up–- Horace wanted to see you when he was in London on Tues. but found he had no time— He went to see his engineering friend M^r Kennedy who is greatly overworked & found some difficulty in obtaining admittance to him— the clerk asked him "whom do you represent? myself— will you put down your name & also what your business is— so Horace put down his name & opposite "Business"—none—which amused the clerk— He stayed a very short time & preached to M^r Kennedy about over work— Bernard came in to tea & to say Goodbye–- He is glad to leave Eton on the whole— I expect he will leave home quite cheerfully today—

Hen finds it tremendously windy high up at W. Malvern esp— at Miss Stephen's little cottage w^h has a beaut. view on the Hereford side— A wicked old Lady Howard de Walden has built an enormous house just below—which one can't complain of, but she has built a 7^ft wall cutting off the view from the road for $\frac{1}{2}$ a mile, & as she could not stop a footpath through her domain, she has built a high wall on each side out of pure spite. She is 87—& Hen. charitably hopes she will have a confined view in heaven— M^rs Stanford comes to see a patient at D^r Eccles— & she said to M^r J.W. she w^d like to see you—

yours my dear George—

it is only 45° & I am tired of being in the house— I walk down every day now | E Darwin