To Josiah Wedgwood III and E. A. Darwin1 25 July 1844
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We hereby request you to pay the sum of five thousand pounds now in your hands, being trust-money under our marriage-settlement, to Thos: Salt Esq:2 for the disposal of Dr Darwin.3
Charles Robert Darwin
Emma Darwin July 25th 1844
I hereby notify my assent to the above Arrangement
E. A. Darwin.
Footnotes
The trustees of the marriage settlement of CD and Emma.
Of the Shrewsbury law firm of Dukes and Salt.
The money was part of a £20,000 sum, made over to Robert Waring Darwin by CD and Emma, which formed the basis of a mortgage loan to Edward Herbert, 2d Earl of Powis, negotiated on 14 November 1844 (R. W. Darwin’s Investment Book (Down House MS), pp. 57, 70).
Summary
Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-766
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Josiah Wedgwood, III; Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1012)
- Physical description
- ADS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 766,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-766.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3
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