From Henry Hemmings to G. H. Darwin 3 February 1868

Dear Sir

I am so much pleased that I cannot help but to express my congratulations to you at the very high position and honour you have obtained at Cambridge I feel quite pround that I ever had the honour to know you. I was very fond of you when you was a very little Boy, I have got your tiny Baby Letters by me now I have always prized them of great value to me, I shall think more highly of them now then ever, I had used to say you would make a clever man some day you had used to sit on my knee and ask me all sorts of questions and I well remember how I was puzzled to answer you

Martha says I must give her best Love to you I tell her you are become a Bearded man and time as altered you, She says she does not mind she will send her Love and nothing els and I like to let her have her own way, please to give our duty to the Household at Down.

I Beg to | Remain your | obedient Servant | H H Hemmings G H Darwin Esq^r