From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [3 November 1858]

My dear William

I have been looking out for an opp. to invite Clement but we shall not be able to manage it just yet as he is going to Paris at once I believe. But I want to ask him & Godfrey very much & I will at Xmas. Your father came home very brisk & I hope he will go again in the course of the winter. It is very pleasant for him having such an agreeable house with pleasant conversation to go to besides the good it does him. He was much pleased with M^r Savage the Editor of the Examiner.

Have you received Lizzy's letter & kettle holder, if so you must write your next letter to her. She did only the grounding & not the figure. Etty is certainly a good deal better & goes to Church & does some lessons  walking is the worst thing she does. The new curtains are quite lovely. Miss Pugh is just returned from a little visit to the Hawkshaws which always does her good.

It did seem rather an undignified way of M^r G. Henslow getting pupils but I am glad he has got you any how.

Lenny is hard at work reading Cook's Voyages but he finds it very hard work. Goodbye my dear old man  this is a bad return for for your pleasant letter. Aunt Cath. went on Tuesday. She has taken a beautiful house for 6 months. 19 York Terrace | Yours E.D.

Mrs von Lengerke has a son.