From Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin [1 December 1866]

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we have done without you.

Mary Hills not a bit worse. Jane came back not much better. Papa hard at work. Our visit was just 2 days too long for him which we must remember anothertime. I am going to send off the Cresy kittens soon & she will be sure to have another brood very soon If I kept them for you it c^d only be for a week or 2 they w^d be so old—

Goodbye my dear E. D.

Henry Lub. is to be married on the 8^th & Tollets are invited to ""assist"" at the church. S^t George. Han. Sqr. She is to be married from some Uncle Hobhouse. Tollets think her really nice. She sings well. Blosset is at L. H. P. this horrid weather. [reverse of cut page] expected. Miss Le clercq a Mlle. QQQQell but much too elaborately for such a simple part.