From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [30 January 1861]

My dear William

Here is your wine bill. Also your boots are come from M^r Wood's & I suppose we shall send them with your brawn. Your father went up with G. & it was well he did for the chloroform was a baddish job. The teeth were so difficult to get out that they had to give it to him twice & at last they cd not get out all the fangs, however he did not feel any thing but he was a very long time coming to himself & you may imagine that your daddy was in something of a fidget.

He got him to Queen Anne & put him to bed when he slept it off & your father paid for it with bad vomitting

G. came home the next morng very pale & poorly but he is all right now & absorbed in making bullets for rifle shooting. Your father staid one day longer but he was bad enough. However he saw Sir H. Holland & had a talk about Etty  She has recovered very well & came down to tea yesterday. Miss Latter comes on Sat so you will be happy to have missed her. I hope you did not break your neck but I suppose Skipworth w^d have let us know

yours my dear old man | E. D