202 A Century of Family Letters [CHAP, xiv 



Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. 



DOWN, Thursday [Feb., 1871]. 



... I feel a constantly recurring sense of relief that the 

 war is over. We hear of French families returning at once. 

 They say poor Mme. Tourgenieff is in great despair at the 

 end of everything. 



I came to high words with one of our guests, a German. 

 He seemed very sore at the general feeling in England for 

 France. However, we each spit our spite, and then made 

 peace. . , . 



Charles Darwin to his daughter Henrietta. 



MY DEAR HENRIETTA, DOWN, March 28, 1871. 



I do not know whether you have been told that 

 Murray reprinted 2,000 [of The Descent of Man], making 

 the edition 4,500, and I shall receive 1,470 for it. That 

 is a fine big sum. The corrections were 128 !! Altogether 

 the book, I think, as yet, has been very successful, amrel 

 have been hardly at all abused. Several reviewers spoes 

 of the lucid, vigorous style, &c. Now I know how m th 

 I owe to you in this respect, which includes arrangermort 

 not to mention still more important aids in the reasoi^ow 

 Therefore I wish to give you some little memorial, coi he; 

 about 25 or 30, to keep in memory of the book, over v) ar t 

 you took such immense trouble. I have consulted Maid h;, 

 but we cannot think what you would like, and she, wrf 

 accustomed wisdom, advised me to lay the case befo of th 

 and let you decide how you like. ray, 



I have been greatly interested by the second ar belies 

 the Spectator, and by Wallace's long article in the Ac that . 

 I see I have had no influence on him, and his Revliffererj 

 had hardly any on me. it mig 



We go to London on April 1st for a few days ^ho w r 

 that I may visit and consult Rejlander about Phot that e s 

 on Expression. I think I shall make an interest betwe ) 





