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was ill, but took not the least harm, and Charles, though 

 not quite well, made a very hearty dinner on roast beef. 

 We should have been tempted to stay a day at Rouen, if 

 the weather had been good, but it has been detestable ever 

 since we landed till this afternoon. (P.S. Rain again.) I 

 am glad you have got the great Henri, but my mind mis- 

 gives me that he knows nothing of German, which I neg- 

 lected to mention to you as a necessary requisite. N'importe 

 his great qualities will make up for the trifling circum- 

 stance of not one of the party speaking the language of the 

 country. 



Tell my dear Jessie that her addition to your former letter 

 to your mother was not thrown away upon me. Nobody 

 can do kind things with so much grace as she does. . . . 



Caroline Darwin to Fanny and Emma Wedgwood, 



MY DEAR FANNY AND EMMA, 26 Ma y> 1827 - 



(I know you like being classed together, and as 

 Charlotte and Eliz. to this day speak of you both as if you 

 were but one, I shall follow their example.) Many thanks 

 for being so glad that I joined this delightful excursion. 

 It was very good-natured of Uncle Jos to think of me, but 

 there never was a kinder person and the pleasantest travel- 

 ling companion. I am quite losing all my former fear, and 

 Charles, who came with us as far as Paris, joins me in a 

 chorus of admiration whenever he leaves the room. . . . 



Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Wedgivood. 



CufiNE, Sunday, 1st July [1827]. 



. . . My dearest children, if I was to say I did not miss 

 you, that the house was not very empty, very silent, and 

 very desolate, I should not say what was true. But you will, 

 I know, be glad to hear that I think more on my good 

 fortune in having you so long, having had so much more of 

 my own Jos than I expected, and seeing and renewing my 



