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[called] on Friday Mrs B. found it almost too tiresome 

 to ask anything about your marriage, so I soon spared 

 her and got on her own affairs, and I like her in spite of 

 manners. 



Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. 



Sunday Evening {Sept., 1871]. 



. . . Leo has been going over the Joch pass and the Aletsch 

 glacier, sleeping at a hut 10,000 feet above the sea. I 

 suppose boys enjoy such things, but I should have thought 

 it horrid, such a piercing high wind, he could not stop a 

 minute to look about him. 



I am taking to some of the St Beuve Causeries, and find 

 them very pleasant, especially anything about the time of 



Louis XIV always amuses me. . . . Mr and A. called. 



A. never knows when to have done with anything. She got 

 upon St Moritz and was quite endless. Now nobody can 

 say that of me. 



The following letters refer to a delightful welcome the 

 Working Men's College gave to us on our return. My 

 husband was one of the Founders, and had worked there 

 ever since its foundation with continuous zeal. The 

 wedding gift of the College, a picture by Maccallurn, was 

 presented to us, and F. D. Maurice made the speech of the 

 evening. 



Charles Danvin to his daughter Henrietta Litchfield. 



MY DEAREST ETTY, November, 1871. 



We were all so rejoiced yesterday; and what a very 

 good girl you were to write us so long a letter. We have 

 been all profoundly interested and touched by your account. 

 Pray tell Litchfield how much I have been pleased, and more 

 than pleased, by what he said about me. When the address 

 and your letter had been read the first thought which passed 

 through my mind was " What a grand career he has run," 

 but I hope his career is very far from finished. I congratu- 



