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To W. E. Darwin   [1850–4?]1

Down

Sunday Morning

[informing him that two letters had arrived for him and that: “Poor Joseph came back last night, having had teeth out,”]

Incomplete2

1
The year range is conjectured from the fact that William went away to school in January 1850 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and Joseph Comfort was gardener and coachman at Down House until 1854. (Joseph Parslow, the butler, was always known as Parslow.)
2
The original letter is complete and according to the sale catalogue is two pages long.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13799F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13799F