My dear Sir

I enclose a cheque for the amount of your account, with many thanks for all the trouble you have been so good as to take for me.—

I believe that your view is quite correct, that out of the ^£20,000 lent to Major Owen,^{1 £}5000 is my own not under Trust. All my wifes share of the late M^r. Wedgwoods property has long ago been invested in the names of my brother & M^r Jos. Wedgwood; but I presume part could be transferred to me. There is ^£4339 in Leeds & Bradford Railway and ^£320 (value as formerly estimated, & now of less value) in Monmouth Canal & Railway, which could be transferred to me (for it is quite unimportant to me the value of these shares being a little under the 5000£), if the advantages to be derived from the whole ^£20,000 being under Trust, exceed the cost of the transference of the above shares. I have not the least idea what is the cost of such transference or on the other hand of the advantages you allude to.—²

Will you, therefore, be so good as to settle for me whether such transference had better be effected; & if you so advise me, I will at once write to M^r J. Wedgwood & my Brother.— The former will be at Shrewsbury about 10^th or 12^th of next month.—

Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely & obliged | C. R. Darwin M^r Salt & son.