From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [January 1859]

. . . evening to save so much conversation. I shall favour her with a good deal of music which I believe she really likes.

Poor Mary Jane is so ill that Cecily does not like to leave her. I am afraid her health is quite broken up.

We had such a tidying after you were all gone & the billiard room is quite elegant besides all G's [illeg] in the drawing room

What a good fellow Frank is to stick to Lenny so. I am keeping Lennys note to send back to him to correct the spelling. I wonder whether you got up to Cumberland to dinner

Goodbye my dear Old man

Papa is tol. George's letters are wonderfully nice

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