1893-1896] Macaulay's Life 305 



Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta Litchfleld. 



May ISth, 1895. 



... I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how 

 they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for 

 such centuries. I am at the 35th, and about three or four 

 I have found beautiful and satisfactory, the rest are almost 

 all calling for protection against enemies or for vengeance 

 one fine penitential Psalm. 



Matheson is reading Hacaulatfs Life to me, and his 

 letters are delightful. He was as good a hater as St 

 Simon, but did not keep up his rancour so long. His 

 intense feeling about his sisters' marriages was very un- 

 common. 



The following is written after Maud Darwin's return 

 from America, with her two children, Gwen and Charles. 



[May, 1895.] 



About 5.30 came George and Maud and Billy more 

 smiling and sweet than ever. A. V. Dicey discussed 

 America with Charles, especially the ice creams, which they 

 had every day. I attempted a little talk with Charles 

 about the voyage, but he was full of the bricks, and bygones 

 are tiresome to children. 



THE GROVE, June 4th, 1895. 



I had a very dissipated day yesterday and I was not 

 tired. Horace in the morning. P. [the butler] came 

 in with solemn apologies and said his mother was very 

 anxious to see me. In she came, so young and handsome 

 and stately, and we talked away, as soon as we could get 

 off the subject of my wonderful kindness, on which she 

 was as tiresome as her daughter-in-law. 



Then came Mrs Marshall. Dicky got on her lap and she 

 nursed him all the time looking very pious. 



