From Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin [12 October 1866]

My dear Horace

Thank you for your nice letter. Frank went to Cambridge early this morning very jolly. George goes on Monday & Edmund is staying here. George & Hen. were riding out & saw each of them separately a bit cut out of the edge of the sun but thought it a delusion so did not mention it to the other.

You were in luck to see it so well. I am glad you have not got black trousers they are dismal. You need not mind about black edged paper.

Poor Aunt Susan has left each of you £100 except William to whom she leaves the Lincolnshire farm.

Aunt Caroline is very much done up & unwell but I hope she is gone home now. What nice weather we have had for more than a week. Mr Pritchard has sent Papa a sermon he preached at the British Assoc. at Nottingham partly against the Origin. It seems very clever.

yours my dear | old man E.D.

Tommy has a cough but Papa rides all the same. He is not very first rate.

front not frunt

hurt not hert

killed not kild

faults not falts.