![]() ![]() ![]() I congratulate you on the new standard that you have set yourself, and assume that you will be top each week in future. It is of course a mere coincidence that you happen to be top on such an occasion. this is the first occasion on which you have told me your place in form without being pressed for it. The sound of the paternal voice, heavy with irony, comes through a letter to his second son, Colin, still at his public school, Oundle when Rosalind went up to Cambridge. Moreover, he expected to be kept informed - weekly, at very least - of their progress and wrote them in return as his part of the dialogue. But as Rosalind entered university, Ellis wanted her to do well as he did all his children. But he had long been aware that his elder daughter was nothing like them, or even like his assertive sisters who made their mark in public life but stopped short of gaining professional qualifications. ![]() Ideally Ellis Franklin may have preferred his elder daughter to be like his wife, or his mother Caroline Jacob, with her diploma from Bedford College and her service on the Bucking- hamshire Education Committee. He would not have sent her, or later, his daughter Jenifer, to St Paul’s if he had wanted a mere finishing school for his girls. ![]() FOUR Never Surrender (October 1938-July 1941) THE MYTH HAS GOT INTO potted biographies of Rosalind Franklin that her father opposed her going to Cambridge. ![]()
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