The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Cranworth, Robert Monsey. 1865.04.11. Letter to Emma Darwin. CUL-DAR161.232. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR161 contains

"Rolfe, Robert Monsey, 1790-1868. Lawyer and statesman. 1832-40 MP. 1850 1st Baron Cranworth. 1852-58 Lord Chancellor. 1865-66 Lord Chancellor. 1865 R lived at Holwood, near Down."
"Norman, Ebenezer, 1835/6-1923. 1854- Schoolmaster at Down and from 1856 and many years thereafter copyist for CD. 1856 Aug. 17 First payment for copying in CD's Account book (Down House MS). Many thereafter. CCD6:444. 1857 CD to Hooker, "I am employing a laboriously careful Schoolmaster". CCD6:443. 1858 CD to Hooker, "I can get the Down schoolmaster to do it [i.e. transcribe] on my return". CCD7:130. 1871 Banker's clerk in Deptford". (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin, A Companion, 2021.)

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40 Upper Brook St. W

11 April 1865

Dear Mrs Darwin

By desire of Lady Cranworth I send you an order for Ebenezer Norman to be admitted as out patient of the Brompton hospital.

I leave it to you to fill in the particulars & date.

You will see that I am bound to ascertain that he is

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in indigent circumstances, so that also I must leave to you.

We hope to be at Holwood tomorrow for a fortnight, & shall try to get a sight of Mr Darwin if he is able to see us as well as of yourself

Yours very truly

Cranworth

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