Transcription:"Dear Innes I have bad news about Quiz: perhaps you had better not tell your son for a time. He has been killed; it was done instantaneo Show moreTranscription:"Dear Innes I have bad news about Quiz: perhaps you had better not tell your son for a time. He has been killed; it was done instantaneously by a gun. We were forced to do this, for he would fly at poor people, & one day bit a child & two days after a beggar woman & we had an awful row about it. There was another reason we could not stop him having fearful battle with Tartar; I had such a job one day in separating them both streaming with blood; & this was incessantly happening. Poor little Quiz had, also, got so asthmatic that he could not run, so that altogether we had no choice left us, though we were very sorry about it. I hope the world goes well with you all; it has not of late with us, for we have had our youngest boy [Horace] strangely ill, with singular involuntary movements, for two months; but at last he is decidedly better. We feared much that there was mischief in the Brain, but it now seems clear that it was all sympathetic with irritation of stomach. I know of no news of any sort here; we all go on exactly as usual as quiet as mice. Dear Innes, Yours very sincerely, Charles Darwin" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England. The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscripts Show less
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