To E. A. Darwin   [25 April 1851]

My dear Erasmus.

Will you be so kind as to get inserted as follows in Times & in any other one or two Papers of largest circulation. “At Malvern on the 23^d inst; of Fever, Anne Elizabeth Darwin, aged ten years, eldest daughter of Charles Darwin Es^q. of Down Kent.”—

I have no idea whether men who supply newspaper insert these, if so Swale¹ I employ & w^d. of course have written to him.—

I will pay for this & Electric Telegraph together.—

—Poor Emma is well bodily & very firm, but feels bitterly & God knows we can neither see on any side a gleam of comfort.—

Fannys sweetness, firmness, constancy & experience were of inexpressible comfort to me at Malvern, & to the last day of my life it will be a comfort to me to think of the tears she so tenderly wept over our poor dear child, when all was over.

My dear Erasmus | Yours affect^y | C. Darwin