To ? 20 February [1869]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
Feb 20th
Dear Sir
I have the pleasure to say that I have formed a very high opinion of Mr Rouse. I am not a mathematician, but I can implicitly trust my son & his brothers, & they think he has got on very well.—2 He is quite strongly attached to Mr Rouse.— My son has persuaded his great friend’s father3 to send him also to Mr Rouse’s; & it is no small advantage that there will now be there at least two young men who like working & have a strong taste for mathematicks.—
I had not heard that my son had a chance of a minor scholarship, though I know he is well advanced in mathematicks, but backward in other subjects.—4 I fear, however, that his health, which has not been strong, will interfere with success.—
As far as I can judge no one would repent of sending a young man to Mr Rouse; not that, as I presume you will agree, any tutor can make an idle young man, industrious.—
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6624F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6624F,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6624F.xml