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To Camilla Ludwig   21 February [1863 or later]1

Down

Feb. 21

My dear Camilla

Will you be so very kind as to look at the enclosed letter sent me by some odd & goodhearted man.—2 No one here, visitors & all, can make it out.— I do not want Translation of whole, but only the part in which he recommends some treatment. I doubt, however, whether I shall try it.— Does the writer seem to know what is the matter with me?—

Yours affect | C. Darwin

1
The year is established by the fact that Ludwig, who was German, was the Darwin children’s governess from 1860 to 1863. She was probably at Down on 21 February 1861 and 1862 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and until at least December 1862, CD addressed her in letters as Miss Ludwig (see Correspondence vol. 13, Supplement, letter to [Camilla] Ludwig, 22 December 1862).
2
The letter has not been found, and the correspondent has not been identified.

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13825,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13825