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Thursday
My dear William
I don't believe you have been written to ever so long. Your father has been so poorly that we are thinking seriously of going to Malvern in the spring, to my great joy, as he has certainly fallen back the two last years. And it is the only thing that ever does him any good. We shall go to Malvern Wells as not so big & bustling as Great Malvern & I guess you will have to be our avant courier & look out a house for us as you succeed so well in that line. Etty is having a good bout & drove out yesterday. Your father goes up today to the Phil dinner. He sleeps at Cath. & comes home tomorrow
The boys come home today by his return carriage.
We are surprised to hear that they only liked the play pretty well. George has got his teeth finished & dined the same day at Queen Anne where he met all Cumberland.
I am sorry to say that Aunt Caroline is very unwell in London, in the same way as she was last summer.
Miss Ludwig has ridden the pony twice & Lizzy is going to try today
Goodbye my dear | old man | E. D.
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Please cite as “FL-0408,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/darwin-family-letters/letters/FL-0408