From Robert Monsey Rolfe 8 December 1866
Dogmersfield Park | Winchfield
8 Decr 1866
My dear Mr Darwin
Your letter was forwarded to me in the Country where we are passing a few days in visiting some friends in Hampshire— But we hope to be back at Holwood1 on Monday— I am sorry that you shd have had the trouble of writing to me, but I lose no time in sending you a cheque for my annual contribution to the Downe Charities—2 We have met here Mr Charles Kingsley an old friend of ours, & he & Mrs Kingsley3 have promised next month to pay us a visit— I hope you may then be strong enough to be able to see us if we call on you—4
Yours very truly | Cranworth
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Sending annual Down charities cheque.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5298
- From
- Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Dogsmersfield Park
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 234
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5298,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5298.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
