From Robert Monsey Rolfe [20 November 1863]1
Holwood | Bromley
⟨ ⟩
⟨My d⟩ear Sir
My contribution to your Downe Charities is paid about this time of the year—& as we may perhaps be going to pay some visits next week, I may as well send you a cheque while the matter is in my mind—2
I hope that you & your family are all pretty well— Mrs Norris3 a⟨n⟩ ⟨one or two words⟩ Cranworth who is wi⟨th us⟩ gives us an unsatisfactory acct of Sir H Holland—4 He was ill last week & after getting much better seems to have imprudently exposed himself which has brought on a sharp attack of Gout or something of the sort—
Yours very truly | Cranworth5
Chas Darwin Esqre
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Sends annual cheque for Down parish charities.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4316
- From
- Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Holwood, Bromley
- Source of text
- DAR 161.2: 230
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp damaged
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4316,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4316.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
