Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Monday
Dearest Ida
The blessed letters came in quite early your F’s so nice & cordial & I should have liked your ghost to have been present. Horace was not gone so he would have a happy journey to meet his own letters at Cam—
He was a good deal collapsed yesterday as you may imagine. He will tell you how kind Jackson was & how “good natured” he thought your face.
We have been saddened on such a happy morning by hearing of the death of Mr Nash in Oregon.
Give my best love to my dear Effie
yours my dear | E.D
I am going to write a few letters; but I have not many to write. How you will be writing this week in your solitude— Mrs Lucas & Susie just come in. It was all up w. your secret on that Saturday; but they were too delicate to mention it to At Eliz. I am r. glad to escape Mrs Scott’s raptures, Mrs Lucas’s were quite nice & moderate & tasteful & what I am sure she felt—
They are going this P.M.
Status: Draft transcription
This transcript was produced as a side-product of the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project and may not have been proofread to the DCP’s usual standards.
Please cite as “FL-1350,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/darwin-family-letters/letters/FL-1350