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CHAPTER IX 



18491851 



Life at Down Malvern water-cure A tour in Wales Jessie Sis- 

 mondi on F. W. Newman The Aliens' youthy age Hey wood 

 Lane Miss Martineau and Mr Atkinson A party at the 

 Bunsens. 



Fanny Allen to Tier niece Emma Darwin. 



MY DEAR EMMA, 3 Feb - t 1849 ^ HEYWOOD LODGE. 



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. ... Your anecdote of 

 Willy 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 

 Cresselly. 



I hope Mrs Nightingale does not bother her daughter to 

 accept of Monckton Mimes. He is not worthy of her. 

 Have you seen his life of Keats ? T. Macaulay says he never 

 knew what religion he [M. Milnes] was of till he read his 

 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 



