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Darwin Correspondence Project

To John Crier   November 1880

Down. | Beckenham

Nov 1880

J. Crier Esq. | Registration Office | Gt Wn. Ry. Station | Paddington, W.

Sir

I write as to my £3400 Monmouthshire Ry Co. Stock in answer to yr. printed circular of 4th. inst as to the issue of a new Certificate on my giving an Indemnity.1

I have no reason to believe that I have ever had in my possession any formal “certificate” of this Stock, and I have always regarded the papers I sent to you on the 3rd. instant as a sufficient evidence of my ownership.2 Those papers are all the documents I have had in reference to the stock.

If under these circes and after looking at the papers sent on the 3rd. inst. (wh. I shall be obliged by yr. returning if not of any use for the purpose) you think it necessy. for me to give an Indemnity to the Co.y I will do so and in this case I name as a “Surety”

Richard Buckley Ld. Esquire, Barrister at Law, of the Inner Temple and of No4 Bryanston Street Portman Square London.3

I hold and can forward to you the upper half of the latest Divd. warrant of the Monmouthshire R. & C. Compy—6 Sept. 18804 and I have not in any way alienated or dealt with the sd £3400 Stock

I am Sir | Yrs. Faithfy | C R D

Footnotes

CD had owned shares in the Monmouthshire Canal and Railway Company since 1846; he evidently planned to convert this holding into Great Western Railway shares. An entry in his Investment book for 15 November reads: ‘I now hold 3400 stock. This has been converted into 4420, 5 per cent Consolidated Guaranteed Stock of the Gt Western Railway’ (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS)).
No other papers or correspondence with Crier have been found.
Richard Buckley Litchfield was CD’s son-in-law; this draft is in his hand.
A dividend of £125 18s. 6d. is recorded in CD’s Investment book for September 1880.

Summary

Discusses matters relating to Great Western Railway Company stock.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12787
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Crier
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 202: 37
Physical description
Draft Draft 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12787,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12787.xml

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