Darwin scholar
E. Janet Browne writes: In 1849, Anne caught
scarlet fever along with her two sisters, and her health thereafter declined; some authorities believe that she suffered from
tuberculosis. In vain pursuit of help from
James Manby Gully's
water cure, Charles Darwin took his daughter to the
Worcestershire spa town,
Great Malvern. She died in Montreal House on the Worcester Road, aged ten, and was buried in the
Great Malvern Priory churchyard. Anne's death was a terrible blow for her parents. Charles wrote in a personal memoir "We have lost the joy of the household, and the solace of our old age.... Oh that she could now know how deeply, how tenderly we do still & and shall ever love her dear joyous face." The loss of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter was softened only by the addition of
Horace Darwin, who was born only three weeks after Anne's death on 13 May 1851. ==''Annie's Box''==