From G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 24 February 1862]

My dear Mama

It's been the fashion for sometime "for" some one to buy a dutch cheese to eat with our biscuits in the evening, & so I've volunteered & invested in one price 2s 5$\frac{1}{2}$d. I really think this is pretty nearly all the news I've got. I've found out Wrigley is a doctor of Medicine. Tell Etty that our sweet Fechter is going to act Iago on March 3; though I dare say she's been looking out in the Times. Wrigley give the Exeats now I believe, I hope it won't have any effect on us. Wrigley walks so awfully quietly that he's very often in the room before any one knows, I don't think he does it on purpose but it is his nature to.

I've had lots of moths come out of crysalises.

I'm utterly stumped for something to say so,

Good bye | I remain your affec son | G. H. Darwin