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From W. E. Darwin   1 November 1881

Bank, Southampton,

Nov. 1 1881

My dear Father,

Will you please send me a list of your trust securities as I have none and G & I have become the Trustees thro’ Uncle Eras’s death.1

I hope your Cambridge Visit rested you2

How horridly cold it.

Sara & I have both just finished “Worms”, and found it most interesting and amusing, Sara is quite eloquent over it.3

Geo. seems awfully busy.

Your affect son | W. E. Darwin

P.S. | When we get the dividend warrant now at Herries Co’s marked for payment shall they be sent to you or paid to your a/c at the Union Bk4

Footnotes

1
George Howard Darwin and William Erasmus Darwin were the executors of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s will. Erasmus had died on 26 August 1881 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Erasmus and CD had been co-trustees of Emma Darwin’s trust; George and William were evidently taking over Erasmus’s role as co-trustee.
2
The Darwins were in Cambridge from 20 to 27 October 1881 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
Sara Darwin; William was on CD’s presentation list for Earthworms (see Appendix IV).
4
Herries, Farquhar, Chapman & Co. were a banking firm at 16 St James’s Street, London (Post Office London directory 1878); they had been Erasmus’s bankers (Correspondence vol. 5, letter from E. A. Darwin, 26 April 1853). CD’s bank was the Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch, London.

Bibliography

Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.

Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.

Summary

Requests a list of CD’s trust securities; he and Sara have finished Worms; asks what he should do with dividend warrant.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13445F
From
William Erasmus Darwin
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Southampton
Source of text
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 95)
Physical description
ALS 4pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13445F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13445F.xml

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