To Thomas Salt 17 February [1861]
Down Bromley Kent
Feb 17th
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your letter. I still feel almost sure that some communication passed between Mssr Burd & myself about five years ago about a prolonged period of agreement; & as this period had expired it seemed to me prudent to consult you on the subject & at the same time about the rate of Interest.1 I had no wish or intention for my Trustees to call in the sum on mortgage.—2 Mssr. Burd have never asked me to reduce the interest: had they done so, I should have consulted you.—
I am sorry to hear that you have been suffering from so painful a disorder as erysipelas.
With my best thanks for your advice, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles R. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for information about Major Owen’s mortgage.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3063F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Salt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3063F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3063F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)