To Erasmus Alvey Darwin 19 April 1851
Montreal | House | Malvern1
19 April 1851
Please send man to sydenham station thence in fly to down to say that Annie has rallied has passed good night danger much less imminent Fanny Hensleigh come Saturday morning nine o clock.
Footnotes
The message is on a form of the Electric Telegraph Company, Strand Station, on which the ‘From’ section reads: ‘Gentleman Montreal | House | Malvern’ and the ‘To’ reads: ‘F. Darwin Esquire | 7 Park St | Grosvenor Sq’. Montreal House was where Anne was being treated and where CD was staying in Malvern.
Summary
Asks EAD to forward a message of Anne’s improved state to Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1403
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- Sent from
- Malvern
- Source of text
- DAR 210.13: 12
- Physical description
- T
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1403,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1403.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
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