From Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin [4 November 1863]

My dear Body

The Doctors both arrived at 6. & we like D^r B. a quiet grave man apparently ssensible. He is very confident that the head symptoms were only sympathetic. He is going to give Papa loads of physic & the oddest thing is cod liver oil in very small quantities. But what rejoices Papa is that he thinks moderate work is much better for him than not. He has known people made ill something like Papa from leaving off all work. Papa stood it very well at the time but paid for it afterwards by a horrid night with pain in the bowels like he had in the spring. So he is in bed a good deal knocked up but the pain is gone. Oddly Horace was taken with sickness early in the morning, which may have been the late dinner tho' it was a very moderate one.

I am glad the glass has risen. so you will have a walk today.

Papa was unusually well all yesterday & Horace did not lie down once till the evening after the gents were gone.

Give my love to Aunt Fanny