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[In another's hand:] Crofton A - #(Whitby)

My dear Mrs Darwin

I was dining with the Buxtons last night & found out who wrote "Wenderholme" which I think Mr. Darwin wanted to know. It is a Mr. Hamerton, who has written several novels, & now write in

[Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. 1869. Wenderholme: a story of Lancashire and Yorkshire. 3 vols. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. Darwin cited Hamerton in Expression, p. 286.]

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Saturday Review — Mrs Palgrave, the lady who told me, knows him personally — I supposed Bessie will have gone to London, which is the reason I trouble you with this — Do you remember the little sort of rhododendron that came from

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High Elms, which you wanted to know the name of? It is not a rhododendron, but an Azalea — this A. Amina as I found out at Kew where there was a fine specimen of it.

Believe me affectly yours

Amy A Crofton

Sunday night.