From Emma Darwin to Elizabeth Darwin and H. E. Darwin [16 August 1864]

My dear Lizzy

You are very good girls. It all sounds very pleasant.

This morning is drizzling but I am afraid it won’t last.

The evening trains from Vic are *P 5–- 50 6–- 10 6–- 30 7–- 30 7–- 50 8–- 45— *Q

I suppose you had better not come to Croydon from Reading.

My news is small today. We have heard from D^r Jenner at last. He stops the chalk for a time which I am afraid Papa will miss.

I have got Mary Carter to furbish me up & make me tidy.

Goodbye my dear your spelling is wonderful & you both tell me different things or put in a diff^t way. | yours E. D.

Papa pretends he is going a drive today. He is brisk after Podoph.

A beautifully written & spelt letter of Lenny Facts small “”The time is passing very slow—but the apples are going very fast”  We must send them some more—

Wrigley is very amiable about G. not coming.

Dear Hen. I am seriously alarmed about y^r hand writing there is getting to be a look of Editha in it & I shall not care for yr letters if they are written in her hand

When do you come home? I only ask out of curiosity.