From L. C. Wedgwood to Horace Darwin [18 November 1872]

My dear Horatio

Thank you very much for the Education by correspondence paper. I think it is a capital plan and does M^rs Peile great credit if it was she who got it up. It sounds so pleasant and so easy that I am enormously tempted by it. Several of the subjects I sh^d. like but am most bitten by mathematics, only as they dont much like rudimentary people I’m afraid they would’nt much like me, & I should’nt like to have my 4 g^ys returned to me! However I m^st. think about it.

I am very sorry you have found it necessary to go and be watered at Malvern again, especially when you want 2 b workg 4 ur scholarship   however I hope it may set u up again, & it mst be pleasant meetg ur old friends there, tho I suppose that is rather a sign that the good is only temporary.

Uncle Ras seems very well   We went with him yesterday to hear M^r. Clifford lecture at S^t. Georges Hall on “the dawn of the Sciences in Europe”. It was interesting—he is such a pleasant lecturer but rather too historical, I wanted more of himself. He divides all the Sciences into Astronomy, Medicine and Sociology. What incessant rain! I’m sure u mgt get watering enough by walking about out o doors anywhere without going to Malvern 4 it.

With many thanks   Ur affectionate cousin | Lucy C. Wedgwood