DARWIN.
LETTER 9.

TO C.LYELL.Shrewsbury, Monday [November 12th, 1838].
My dear Lyell I suppose you will be in Hart St.( 9/1.

Sir Charles Lyell lived at 16, Hart Street, Bloomsbury.) to-morrow [or] the 14th.

I write because I cannot avoid wishing to be the first person to tell Mrs.Lyell and yourself, that I have the very good, and shortly since [i.e.until lately] very unexpected fortune of going to be married! The lady is my cousin Miss Emma Wedgwood, the sister of Hensleigh Wedgwood, and of the elder brother who married my sister, so we are connected by manifold ties, besides on my part, by the most sincere love and hearty gratitude to her for accepting such a one as myself.
I determined when last at Maer to try my chance, but I hardly expected such good fortune would turn up for me.

I shall be in town in the middle or latter end of the ensuing week.