From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [15 February 1864]

My dear William

Will you send for a parcel for your father (from D^r Krüger of Trinidad) at Mess^rs G. Dunlops with the enclosed paper & send it by rail to the care of the Down post man Bromley station | Kent

Papa has had a baddish week or ten days, with no two good days together but I hope is going to be better today. Hen. is gone to the Tollets this m^g. to go to a morning Opera Faust. M^me Sherrington who will be nice tho' not equal to Titicus. She comes home tomorrow. Some days Your father has got out as many as four times in the day. M^r Spengle is gone up today to consult D^r Jenner not that we expect any positive good from him but it is satisfactory to leave no stone unturned. Aunt Jessie writes a very poor account of Major K. who is just returned very thin & with a very bad cough. Louisa is with the Ks at Hereford & Major K is soon coming to Woodfield— Horace is certainly more energetic & sticks to his reading & Euclid by himself.

The working room is a great resource now he is by himself. He is trying to manufacture soda water for your father in our fizzing machine.

Yours my dear W | E. D.

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