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Darwin Correspondence Project

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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