To Inland Revenue [17–21 July 1868?]1
[Freshwater?]2
Dear Sir
The assessment for Income Tax under schedule D3 has been forwarded to me here, where I shall remain on acct of my health for one more month.— I cannot fill up the return for foreig[n] R.4 until I return home, where my account books are locked up.— Can you permit me to delay making a return this long; or if not could you forward this letter to the Commissioner,5 & state that you know what I have stated as cause.
Dear Sir | Yours
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Summary
Cannot fill out a return [for foreign revenue?] until his return home.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6278
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Inland Revenue
- Sent from
- Freshwater
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 55
- Physical description
- ADraft 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6278,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
