From H. E. Litchfield to G. H. Darwin [March 1876]

The Railway invalid carriage is a delightful affair. with private & [ask.] stand— [retirato] bed in saloon carriage & seats for bystanders. There is a place in Leicester Square where they hire out chairs on which people can be carried in & out of places & up & down stairs. I mean chairs like this *P ⁠⟨⁠diagram of two people carrying another person on a chair⁠⟩⁠ *Q if you understand my picture & she cd be thus carried into invalid road carriage & left sitting with chair standing on the floor & then carried into a railway bed carriage & put to bed & then in same chair make transit thro' London on road carriage & have invalid Railway carriage waiting or her at Ch X taking of course the road carriage all the way with her on a [turck] as well for the different transits of [my] road as well— This is because I gather she c^d not well sit up &\ lie down in invalid.road.carriage—but this  I might make out. Goodbye dear Mother we have both enjoyed our stay so much at Down—& it is such a delight to me that you like R. & make him so tame there. It is such a happiness to me to have two homes—& I feel as long as I have Father & you it does instead of our having children & makes our lives quite full. for you are the dearest Father & Mother that ever anyone had—

your | H.E.L.