To George Ransome 25 October [1849]
Down Farnborough | Kent
Oct. 25th
My dear Sir
I shall feel extremely happy to promote in the smallest degree any object in which you are interested, & therefore will you be so good as to put my name down to the Subscription List for £1’0’0 for the Portrait of the Bishop.1
I beg to remain | dear Sir | Your’s sincerely | C. Darwin
G. Ransome Esqe
Footnotes
CD subscribed £1 1s. on 2 January 1850 (Account Book, Down House MS) for a portrait of the Bishop of Norwich. This was probably one of the portraits in the Ipswich Museum series promoted by Ransome. There are two bishops of Norwich in the set: Edward Stanley, who had died in September 1849, and the recently appointed Samuel Hinds. See also letter to J. S. Henslow, [7 October 1849], n. 4.
Summary
Agrees to subscribe £1 toward the portrait of a bishop of Norwich.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1261
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Ransome
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.81)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1261,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1261.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
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