From Henrietta Anne Huxley to Emma Darwin   22 March [1867]¹

Dear M^rs Darwin

Yet another query about bedsteads & bedding— Will it not be more convenient to have no foot board or foot rails to the bedstead if it has a somnier portatif² two mattresses— Surely the bed is more easily made & looks better— which have you?— Am I a plague?

I have just got a new nurse—& today she has refused to wheel the perambulator—³ Is it not provoking. I have not yet got an under nurse—

Baby has not solved the riddle for M^r Darwin but thus much I noted the other morning when I entered the nursery— She was anxious to come to me yet did not cry only pushed away her nurse— At the same time the corner of her right eyebrow was very elevated.—but there was no drawing down of her mouth corners—⁴ Is this observation good for anything?

I am very glad that Horace is better—⁵ it is so sad to have one’s children ill— It is hard—writing with Baby upon one’s lap—& I had better end

With love to all | I am | Yours very affectionately | Nettie Huxley