My dear Horace
Thank you for your nice long letter. I am glad you got a turn at the canoe & it all seems to have gone off well & pleasantly. I am sure you will like the tarts & we have send the fixings to eat them. They are quite delicious. But the principal reason was that we are obliged to gather the plums utterly unripe this horrid rain which splits them & then they are done for. We send you a few of the best to eat.
The horse is a pretty chesnut more very like Flyer
It was left in Mr Sales’s hands to sell & we tried it for a week & I think it a bargain for £26.
It will do for riding too. Poor Polly is no better.
Those naughty boys never write. Goodbye my dear | E.D.
Horace I am glad Lenny had his fun.
Hen. hopes she will be home at Michaelmas
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Please cite as “FL-1323,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/darwin-family-letters/letters/FL-1323