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To the National Debt Office   [after 29 July 1877]

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Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  National Debt Office
Date:  [after 29 July 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11065

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Spearman, A. Y. (1793–1874)

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  • … and controller general of the National Debt Office, 1850–73. Created baronet, 1840. ODNB . …
  • … Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. 2 Treasury National Debt Office Civil servant …

To Thomas Druitt   29 July [1877]

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Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society to ask whether the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Druitt
Date:  29 July [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11079

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  • … Cross, London. The letter from the National Debt Office has not been found. The former …
  • … the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office. …
  • … and n. 1, and letter to the National Debt Office, [after 29 July 1877] . Thomas Druitt was …
  • … withdraw a sum (about £290) from the National Debt Office & I want to beg the great favour …

To J. M. F. Ludlow   11 February 1876

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Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:  11 Feb 1876
Classmark:  The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10840

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  • … I asked you to communicate with the National Debt Office, & this I presume you did, as the …
  • … is certain that soon afterwards the National Debt Office and the Post Office received our …

To J. B. Innes   7 February [1876]

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Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  7 Feb [1876]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10833

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  • … Registrar who communicated with the National Debt Office. Nevertheless we must fill up the …
  • … with the Post Office Savings Bank and then transferred to the national debt commissioners, …

To A. C. Thomson   11 February 1876

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Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Christie Thomson
Date:  11 Feb 1876
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10386

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  • … that he would communicate with the National Debt Office. This I suppose he did for the …

To the Post Office Savings Bank   1 January [1877?]

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Asks to have some funds of the Down Friendly Society transferred.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Post Office Savings Bank
Date:  1 Jan [1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12967

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  • … one relating to the Post Office and to the national debt commissioners, were made in the …
  • … with the Post Office Savings Bank and then transferred to the national debt commissioners, …

Pratt, J. T. (1797–1870)

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  • national debt commissioners, 1828; responsible for certifying the rules of savings banks and friendly societies, and later many other societies. A permanent office
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …