From Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin [12 June 1864]

My dearest Body.

You have been very good about writing & we enjoy yr letters very much. Yesterday I took Snow to the station & did a world of shopping New coal box elegant shape & quite plain

Dining room chairs covered with Green Morocco which will please you but done at old Dunn's which will not. He shewed me some neatly done however puckered like a mattress.

There is no danger about the infants alas for Brooks & Horace, in trying to improve the machine cracked a post & it has to go up on Wed.

Horace & I have just been feeding them & Fisty out of one saucer & every now & then they stopped eating to hoist their backs at him & then went on again. Papa got to big woods yesterday. I have not so great a soul above jewelry as you but I do think Louisa must have a useless quantity of it as she will not be rich but she may be very visity tho'.

I sent off boots yesterday.

Goodbye my dear— | E. D.

I am sorry to hear of Jenny looking pale. Give my best love to Aunt Jessie— I hope Uncle Harry is mending & taking care of himself—