Sunday P.M.
My dear Horace
F. has been down stairs most of the day & I really expect that tomorrow he will be nearly as well as usual. He has just been looking at your notes & specimens & he desires me to say that nothing could have been more clearly & precisely done, every thing being as he wd have done it himself & they will be of gt use to him. The visit of the Drs was such a comfort as putting out of our minds all fear of the head symptoms, but I cd have wished that Dr C. had made more of a point of diminishing his work. He does however promise fair. Dr C made a gt struggle against taking a fee, but was conquered I am glad to say, or else we cd not send for him again on any thing but a great emergency. George found it very disagreeable fighting him as his manner was almost offended, but tho’ very generous it shews some want of sense.
If you don’t go to see Leo. you may send this to him tho’ I have written a scrap— Geo. had been hard at work writing out the précis of his globe to send to Gen. Strachey as it had to go at once to be in time. John Lewis has finished the glove & made a capital job of it. People were always asking him what it was & when he told a man it was a globe, the answer was he knew that was a lie, so Lewis gave up telling the truth & told them any cocks & bulls.
Goodbye my dear Old Man— Geo. does not go till the 15th w. is all the better for us & him yours E.D.
Status: Draft transcription
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Please cite as “FL-1505,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on