London & Sussex.- 19th century doctor & Wyke House Lunatic Asylum.- Cooper (Emily Elizabeth, born Nooth, daughter of Henry Stephen Nooth, 6th Dragoon Guards, 1797-1871, married Dr. George Francis Cooper, GP, and Assistant Surgeon, 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment, of Brentford, Middlesex, 1827 - c. 1900) A record of a most eventful & happy life, autograph manuscript diary, 96pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with large tear without loss, original morocco-backed boards, rubbed, corners worn, spine defective, sm. 4to, 1st January - 15th October 1861.
⁂ Frequent mentions of their friends Dr. and Mrs. Willett, Edmund Sparshall Willett of Wyke House, Lunatic Asylum, near Brentford. With numerous mentions of her son Georgie, and a new baby girl. Her husband is out much of the time at his practice and drilling with the Royal South Middlesex Regiment. Also numerous visits to her parents, the Nooths who live in Hove and records visits to Brighton shops. Other items recorded includes a suspected theft of £250 by Edward, a member of their extended family; a sermon preached in Brighton by Joseph Wolff (1795-1862), missionary and traveller; death of Laura in childbirth, wife of Clement Smith in Islington etc.
(1). "Wednesday 15th. [1861]. We found out that we had been dreadfully robbed by Edward who had kept a bill back, to the amount of £250."
(2). "Thursday 21 [April 1861]. Got up early and off to Westbourne Square... found dear Laura in a hopeless state, the little baby was born an hour after I left the house, and the poor mother never knew the child but sank gradually from the time it was born. I went up to her room and remained till her spirit had departed, poor Mr. Cooper arrived just in time to see her alive. Poor Clement dreadfully distressed... ."
(3). "Thursday 28th [April 1861]. Wrote to Polly & Miss Tiptoft after lunch, walked with Georgie to Wyke [House] met Mrs. W[illett] in the Brougham coming to Brentford so walked back with her. George went to town came home to dinner. Sent for to Mortlake just as we were goint to bed. Came home at 11."
(4). THE VERY FIRST CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW HELD AT THE RHS GARDENS IN KENSINGTON. "Wednesday [3rd June 1861]. Went by the 11.50 train to Paddington with G. and Baby, took a cab to the Montgomerys lunched there, and went with them to the Botanic fête at Kensington saw all the royal family except the Queen... ."
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