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CHAPTER II 



1839 



The wedding at Maer Caroline's baby dies Life at Gower Street 

 Hensleigh becomes Registrar of Cabs Elizabeth gives up 

 the Sunday-school Charles and Emma's first visit to Maer 

 Their child born Dec. 27, 1839 My mother's character. 



CHARLES DARWIN and Emma Wedgwood were married on 

 Tuesday, the 29th January, 1839, at Maer Church. The 

 wedding was perfectly quiet, and they went at once to 

 Upper Gower Street. 



Emma Darwin to her mother. 



GOWER STREET, Thursday [Jan. 31, 1839]. 

 MY DEAR MAMMA, 



It was quite a relief to me to rind on coming out 

 of Church on Tuesday that you were still asleep, which 

 spared you and me the pain of parting, though it is only 

 for a short time. So now we have only the pleasure of 

 looking forward to our next meeting. We ate our sand- 

 wiches with grateful hearts for all the care that was taken 

 of us, and the bottle of water was the greatest comfort. 

 The house here was blazing with fires and looked very 

 comfortable and we are getting to think the furniture quite 

 tasteful. Yesterday we went in a fly to buy an arm-chair, 

 but it was so slippery and snowy we did not do much. 

 We picked up some novels at the library. To-day I sus- 

 pect we shall not go out as it is snowing at a great rate. 

 I have been facing the Cook in her own region to-day, and 

 found fault with the boiling of the potatoes, which I thought 

 would make a good beginning and set me up a little. On 



