From E. A. Darwin   [September 1868 – August 1870]1

I suppose this Bill is Carolines2 so send it on as I dare say it is paid— The Clock is not come.

to Charles

Sylvester came & said some officers having been speaking so highly of Leonard that I thought you would like to hear it— in their expressive language ‘he is all there’ & perhaps Lenny can translate the military language.3 This note is all topsy turvy as I dont know to whom I am writing

1
The date range is established by the reference to Leonard Darwin’s performance at military college (see n. 3, below).
2
The reference is to Caroline Sarah Wedgwood.
3
James Joseph Sylvester was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where Leonard Darwin was a student from August 1868 until 1871. Sylvester’s successor at Woolwich was appointed in August 1870. (RMAS archives, Sandhurst Collection.)

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7047,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7047