From H. E. Litchfield to G. H. Darwin [8 October 1876]

Dear Geo.

I send these enclosures, those to Mother to be returned to her, & Mother's to be burnt.

I am very sorry to hear you are bad & unable to work. It is so dreadfully dreary for you—& horrid waste of time. I am also sorry that the grand theory to explain the universe is gone squash— Tho' I never heard of it, but as entirely in the vague. & haven't a notion what it was.

We are getting on very well here. The baby flourishing & with teaching me a little German & seeing to At Eliz Bessy finds eno' to do— She is bearing up very bravely I think—for it is a daily & hourly loss to her wh. seems to darken her whole life. We have heard of a piece of Pantlludw news—but wh. seems only $\frac{1}{2}$ announced i.e. that Atty is to many Amy's friend Ellie D'Arcy. I am sorry for its happening just now for Frank's sake a man engaged is only half a man to his friends & Fr. seemed to take such great comfort from Atty.

We've been daily newsers lately & so have hardly followed the Times—

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