From G. H. Darwin to Leonard Darwin [July 1868]

Dear Old Pouts,

I was most awfully delighted to see your place in the list & I congratulate you with all my heart. I didn't know the list was coming out till next week— & so I was taken quite by surprise when Bunbury showed it to me in the paper after dinner last night. They all piled up the congrat^s. miles high— particularly old Sir Charles, who is a very nice old gentleman. I suppose you are doing a tour somewhere tho' I'm blessed if I know where. I hope you intend being in the I of W. for a bit before you go and pipe clay your belt. Bless your soul We're always second we are.

Yours affectionately| G H Darwin