From H. E. Litchfield to G. H. Darwin 3 October [1876]

Dear Geo.

There has been no news from [Pantlludw] for one or two days. The last thing that was said was that Frank led a very regular & methodical life & that Horace was a great comfort. They work in the morning both of them & go a good walk from 4 to 6—& in the evening there is reading aloud. Mother has asked M^r R. to come back with Frank whenever he comes. This will be an immense help to him in his terrible task. He talks of not coming home for a month or 6 weeks, but I hope it will be sooner. I thk the longer it is put off the worse it will be. The parents are off tomorrow to L.H.P & then on to W^ms. on Sat where I hope they will stay a fortnight. We have been having a good many wibber jibbers about the baby. He has been having 3 very uncomfortable days—with his digestion all wrong. I hope however it is over, today for he is sleeping like a little top for 3 hours in the drawing room. He is going to be moved into the new room for the winter or at any rate the present—& it will save us all so many stairs—besides being good they say to have the sun come on a nursery. We thk he is a little Darwin—

His weight is 8lbs 13oz—& that is his chronicle.

Bessy comes home today just to see the Parents before they are off— She stays behind a week with R. & me— I shall have a good coach of German— I do mean to have a good go this autumn to try & get one step further on.

We were intensely interested in the acct of Sidgwick & the Conjuror. How I shd like to go with a conjuror. Did the conjuror know how the chairs were made to lift. I sh^d. like to know that nearly as m. as the writing.

I thk you were wise to settle agst the Hilands now.

Goodbye dear G. | your | H.E.L.

My back is qui right. Marshall is coming down today for a final talk with Father before they go off. It is rather unlucky no boy being to the fore now. Marshall seems rather an [innocent]