To Thomas Salt 4 November 1851
Down Farnborough Kent
Nov. 4th. 1851.
My dear Sir
I returned you the enclosed Parchment, which is, I hope, signed & witnessed properly.1
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. R. Darwin
To Mss. Salt & Son
Footnotes
The parchment has not been identified, but CD may have remade his will following the death of his daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in April 1851.
Summary
Returns the enclosed parchment.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1461F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Salt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1461F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1461F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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