From Leonard Darwin to Horace Darwin 24 October 1876

Dear Jim.

I am very much ashamed of myself for not writing to you before as you have written me such lots of letters. I have no particular news of myself except that I have been working pretty hard   I have had some odd jobs to do, and designing the inside of a fort, which is now going home to be picked to pieces. I am at present in charge of four forts which sounds a lot, but there is nothing going on at one of them and another is not commenced yet, though I expect to lay it out in a few days. But I am only acting as a sort of a fish joint, as one officer is going away & another coming in his place. I dont know what I shall do eventually. Staff College work goes on slowly and steadily, and is rather tiresome. I am working up Euclid in the mornings, and Military History afternoons. I have just got fathers circular about money matters which makes us all Croesuses; I dont quite know why he has done it. I am looking forward to reading father’s autobiog. as I should think it must be very interesting though I am afraid I shall have to wait some time. News here seems very warlike, but we never hear anything until all the rest of the world has.

Your affec bror. | L.D.