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CHAPTER XIII 



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A long illness The death of Charlotte Langton Scarlet fever A 

 humane trap for animals Catherine Darwin's marriage My 

 father's continual illness The deaths of Catherine Langton 

 and Susan Darwin The Huxley children at Down' George a 

 second Wrangler A month in London Elizabeth Wedgwood 

 comes to Down Freshwater My father's accident out riding 

 Shrewsbury and Caerdeon. 



1860 my poor mother's thoughts and time were en- 

 grossed with the care of me in a long illness (probably 

 typhoid fever) lasting with relapses from May, 1860, till 

 Midsummer, 1861. In July I was well enough to be moved 

 to Hart field, " the kindly hospital for all who are sick or 

 sorry ' as Fanny Allen called it. But I soon had a bad 

 relapse and gave her as much anxiety as ever. 



CJiarles Darwin to his son William. 



HAKTFIELD, Monday [July 30, I860]. 



Poor Etty will long be an invalid, but we are now too 

 happy even at that poor prospect. Your letter has amused 

 us all extremely, and was read with roars of laughter. 

 Etty has not yet heard it; but you cannot think what a 

 pleasure your letters are to her ; they amuse and cheer her 

 so nicely. I shall copy your account of dialogue before 

 the Bishop and send it to Hooker and Huxley. You may 

 tell the gardener that I have seen an ant's nest in a tree, 

 but it is rare. . . . 



The Review by the Bishop of Oxford and Owen hi last 

 Quarterly is worth looking at. I am splendidly quizzed 

 by a quotation from the Anti-Jacobin. The naturalists are 



