The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: [School board]. [ny].12.01. Note relating to the use of a school as a Workman's Reading Room. BROM-P.123.25.3.1.3. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Scanned by Kate Bond, transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library and William Huxley Darwin. With thanks to Kate Bond.

This is enclosed with Ffinden's letter to Emma Darwin on 31 March 1875. See BROM-P.123.25.3.1.5.

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Dec 1.

Downe W. S.

This School is now in receipt of a government grant.

A request has been made to me us as members of the committee to allow the use of the School building every evening for a Workman's Reading room. ~~Some~~ Two years since it was lent for that purpose, & the results were highly unsatisfactory.

Smoking, coffee drinking bagatelle other games &c &c were allowed, & the condition of the room next morning, as I can testify by personal experience, was most offensive from the effects of bad tobacco smoke & spitting are example

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