To Horace Darwin   11 January [1880]1

Down

Jan 11th

My dear Horace

Everybody has seen the enclosed except William so please forward it to him immediately.—2

I suppose that you & Ida are too high in the sky to care for base money.3

Your affect. | C. Darwin

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to the Darwin children, 10 January 1880.
Horace had married Ida Farrer on 3 January 1880 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12415,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12415