My dear Galton

Very many thanks for your notes. I am uncommonly glad to hear of any & every justification of our grandfather.²

I never heard a word or saw any expression on my Father’s countenance, showing that he expected his father to leave him a farthing of his own earnings; but he certainly thought that he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s fortune.³ Why that was not settled, passes my comprehension, considering that M^r. Howard was a solicitor.⁴ But the subject is not worth another thought & I shall make no allusion to it in my short notice.— It is very surprising that our grandfather, considering how hard he worked, did not make more money.— I have found one memorandum in my Fathers handwriting of his Father having lost at least 1500^£ in some iron-works.⁵ Perhaps he made other bad speculations.—

Ever yours very truly | Ch. Darwin