1888-1892] The Plan of Campaign 295 



April 22nd, 1892. 



I hope you enjoy the change of weather. I do in the 

 spirit, but in the flesh I was very hot and done up. 



Carry is busy in the evening smartening a pink flannel 

 petticoat, and I feel a person so much more comfortable 

 who is doing something. We read Severn's Life which 

 does very well. He is rather a foolish man, and talks of 

 Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was 

 consumption, with every care the best Dr (Sir J. Clark), 

 and the best nursing could give. Severn behaved nobly in 

 sacrificing everything to go with Keats (his father knocked 

 him down with indignation at his persisting in going), but 

 it made his fortune as it happened. 



Emma Darwin to her son George. 



THE GROVE, April 3, 1892. 



Your children met Frances here on her birthday the 

 30th. It was to be celebrated by her using a knife and 

 she asked her mother to put me in mind " and don't smile 

 when you ask her." They were very jolly and could hardly 

 eat for chatter. It was the first time I have seen Charley 

 out-talked: but he went steadily on with his meat. After- 

 wards they went in the field after primroses. 



Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. 



[1892.] 



M. gave me such a tragic account of the agency of her 

 brother John. When he was busy on the Lurgan part of 

 the estate he was quite safe and everything prosperous; 

 but he had occasionally to go to a mountainous bit of the 

 Bath estate, and after the Plan of Campaign his life was 

 in constant danger and they used to be trembling for him 

 until he and his clerk with their revolvers came home. On 

 one occasion when he owned to her, on saying good-night, 

 that he had received a threatening letter, she sent privately 



