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To G.S. Ffinden   9 December 1878

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dec. 9th 1878

Dear Mr Ffinden

I have the pleasure to enclose a cheque for 5.5.0 for the Downe Coal Club.—1

Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The Downe Coal and Clothing Club was a local charity that supplied parishioners with cheap coal and clothes in exchange for regular savings; CD served as treasurer from 1848 to 1869 (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to John Innes, [8 May 1848] and n. 2). Ffinden was the vicar of Down; he ran the Coal and Clothing Club (J. R. Moore 1985, p. 470). On 9 December 1878, CD recorded a payment of £5 5s. under the heading ‘Ffinden’ in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Moore, James Richard. 1985. Darwin of Down: the evolutionist as squarson-naturalist. In The Darwinian heritage, edited by David Kohn. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with Nova Pacifica (Wellington, NZ).

Summary

Encloses a cheque for £5.5.0 for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11782A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
George Sketchley Ffinden
Sent from
Down
Source of text
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 64, 1988)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11782A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11782A.xml

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