To Baxter, Payne, and Lepper 14 October 1880
Oct 14th 1880
[Down.]
to Mss Baxter, Payne & Co
Dear Sir,
I have received three notices signed by your firm requesting payment of a half years commutation Rent Charge. The notices do not state upon whose behalf you apply, but I suppose the claim is for Vicarial Tithe.1
I do not, however, perceive how the total agrees with what I have before paid & I shall be obliged if you will let me know the numbers of the fields referred to.2
These tithes, I believe, have hitherto always been paid in the Village & it appears to me hardly reasonable to ask the tithe payers to go to Bromley to make the payment.3
I hear that this is the general opinion, & I should therefore suggest that you name some place in the village at which the tithes can be paid at an appointed time.
I am, Dear Sir, | yours faithfully | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Post Office London suburban directory: The Post Office London suburban directory. Kelly’s London suburban directory. London: Kelly & Co. 1860–1903.
Summary
Questions BP & Co. on notices requesting the payment of rent charges.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12759
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Baxter, Payne, and Lepper
- Sent from
- [Down]
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 29
- Physical description
- Draft(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12759,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12759.xml