To C. H. Drinkwater 24 May 1877
[I have before me now an autograph letter, dated, May 24 1877, in which Charles Darwin wishes me success in an undertaking afterwards fully carried out, and encloses a substantial contribution. He writes in a kindly spirit, displaying his interest in the welfare of a district, now a parish, in which his boyhood was spent.]1
Footnotes
This is an extract of a letter from Drinkwater, dated 11 January 1893, and addressed from St George’s Vicarage, Shrewsbury; the letter was printed with a proposal for a Darwin memorial in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS) record payment of a cheque for £10 to ‘Drinkwater Frankwell School’ on 24 May 1877. As a boy, CD lived at The Mount in the Frankwell area of Shrewsbury (Freeman 1978).
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10971G
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Henry Drinkwater
- Source of text
- Shrewsbury Chronicle, 12 January 1894, p. 8
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10971G,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10971G.xml
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