From Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin [13–27 June 1864]

My dear Body.

A lovely day yesterday & the rooks made an onslaught on the cherries & I don't know how we shall save them. Papa dined & tead down stairs. Horace did not go to church not being very brisk— Granny pursued Bobby nearly to the kitchen garden because her kittens were by the azaleas. He howled & rushed into the bushes but we c^d not see that his poor nose was damaged.

She made 3 or 4 onslaughts.

I think we have got a groom who sounds promising.

You cannot be too minute in yr letters we want to everything.

D^r.^ Hooker says he will come—

He begins his letter Glorified Friend & says he knows now where Herbert got the original of his fresco of Moses—

It will not be till Sunday week so I hope you will be here—

I have many notes to write & we are going to have the new carpet down & I have lost my specs.

Goodbye my dear— another good day for Papa—