To George Moultrie Salt 5 February [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb 5.
Dear Sir
I have received the enclosed note & shd be much obliged if you will act for me & take whatever steps are proper. Please to observe he refers to me as C. Darwin instead of C. R. Darwin.
I was not the least aware that any money was standing in my joint name belonging to the late Mrs Bayley. I was appointed Executor to Major Bayley with a legacy of £100;2 but by the advice of your late father3 did not receive the legacy & refused to act, as the will had to be referred to the Court of Chancery.4 This is all that I know of the affair & I trust that you will take proper steps to keep me out of any legal difficulties.
Pray believe me yours very faithfully | Ch. R. Darwin
P.S. I have written to Mr Horner5 to say that you will act for me, & therefore, if you please, you can communicate direct with him.
C.D.—
To | Mss Salt & Sons
[Enclosure]
Market Drayton
Feb 4. 1868
Dear Sir
By the death of Mrs T. Bayley a sum of £2000 [illeg] 3 per cent standing in the names of R. W. Darwin decd. C. Darwin & T. C. Eyton becomes my absolute property,6 I request therefore that you will take the earliest convenient opportunity of having it transferred to my own name and an answer to this will oblige,
I am | Dear Sir | Sinly Yours | J. Horner.
C. Darwin Esq.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire: Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire. Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and the City of Bristol. Post Office directory of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire, with the City of Bristol. London: Kelly & Co. 1856–79.
Summary
Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5839G
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Moultrie Salt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5839G,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5839G.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16