From A. G. Dew-Smith 25 February 1882

Sunday. Feb 25/82.

F. M. B. going on very satisfactorily indeed. The fever has abated the Doctors say, & altogether he is very much better & more comfortable.¹

A. G. D.

See also letter from A. G. Dew-Smith, 21 February [1882]. Francis Maitland Balfour was ill with typhoid fever.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13706,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13706