Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
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CHAPTER VIII - 1849–1851
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
- Plate section
Summary
Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin.
3 Feb. [1849], Heywood Lodge.My dear Emma,
I should be grateful for anything that brought me one of your sweet letters, and I most gratefully thank you for your affection which has prompted you to send me a souvenir, and though I have no need of one with regard to you, yet I am sure it will perform its pleasant office of putting me in mind of you, whenever I sit down to write, or indeed whenever I look at it. I trust the colds and coughs of your children are now quite gone, and that all is as usual in your happy home, where nothing is wanting but health to Charles…. Your anecdote of Willie is charming—so much love and patience with Georgy. Such a character in the eldest child, ensures all the rest being good. You deserve to be a happy father and mother, and you have a fair promise. You are very right, no child can spoil another by kindness. Men and women have great power in spoiling, as I perceived last week when I was at—.
I hope Mrs — does not bother her daughter to accept of M. Milnes. He is not worthy of her. Have you seen his life of Keats? T. Macaulay says he never knew what religion he was of till he read this book. He expects to find an altar to Jupiter somewhere in his house. We are near the end of Macaulay's History, and it is very entertaining reading. I do not see the ‘new views’ which they talk of in this history.
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- Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles DarwinA Century of Family Letters, pp. 122 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904