. . . 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
Status: Draft transcription
This transcript was produced as a side-product of the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project and may not have been proofread to the DCP’s usual standards.
Please cite as “FL-0394,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on