From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin [November or December 1890]

. . . We hear that Aunt Grace is now nearly well, Aunt Anne is just the same, the Dr says she cannot go on long in this way but must soon recover somewhat or get worse, I myself do not think that she can get better, & it can hardly be hoped. Cold weather has come at last & it is refreshing, & I hope it will freeze off the remains of the influenza, which is still rather bad in the neighbourhood, Sara & I have been in luck not to take it, it would have played the dickens with me just as the issue of shares was going on.

Goodbye dear Mother, I hope you pretty well & have some keen weather at Cambridge to brace you up. Sara sends her best love to you & to Bessy. I have just finished Gardener's history of Charles the 1st & dont at all wonder that they cut off his head, but he was a martyr in the sense that he preferred to lose his life & head rather than give up the Episcopacy & support Presbyterianism, but he was so false that one cannot the least sympathise with him. It is a long job to read Gardener.

your affect son | W. E. Darwin