Friday
My dearest Leo
It is always easier to write than to speak & so though I shall see you so soon I will tell you that the entire love & veneration of all you dear sons for your father is one of my chief blessings & binds us together more than ever. When you arrived on Thursday in such deep grief I felt you were doing me good & enabling me to cry, & words were not wanting to tell me how you felt for me—
Hope expresses a feeling that I should not be pitied after what I have possessed & have been able to be to him— This is put very baldly in my words; but hers gave me gt happiness—
I have had a sweet & feeling letter from your B. & after a little while it will be a real happiness to have her here. What a loss it wd have been to you as well as her if she had not known him—
Yours my dear old man | E.D—
Status: Draft transcription
This transcript was produced as a side-product of the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project and may not have been proofread to the DCP’s usual standards.
Please cite as “FL-1082,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on