From Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin [4 August 1873]

My dear Lenny

We are just on the point of starting (viz tomorrow to Abinger)  Uncle Ras & U. Hensleigh & [titches] go today.

I hope u got yr Sunday at Barlaston—

I expect u will have a jolly time in those parts—

I hope Horace is at the present time rowing from Oxford to London. & if he c^d use his new patent bench the pleasure w^d be greatly enhanced. W^m. is returned not much better for his trip— He finds that he cannot read at all without feeling it in his head.— It is a great loss for him. D^r W. Fox says that he ought to have 2 months more holiday in the autumn. He will try to manage his leave of absence; but it will be rather difficult to manage. Frank & Amy are gone to Wales—

I have just got your letter from Barlaston.

I find my ideas gone so Goodbye my dear Leo— yours E.D.

I am surprised about [Kerguelan's] land being full—