Letter 766
Darwin, C. R. to Wedgwood, Josiah, III & Darwin, E. A.
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Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.
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We hereby request you to pay the sum of five thousand pounds now in your hands, being
trust-money under our marriage-settlement, to Tho
Charles Robert Darwin
Emma Darwin
July 25
I hereby notify my assent to the above Arrangement
E. A. Darwin.
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The trustees of the marriage settlement of CD and Emma. - +
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Of the Shrewsbury law firm of Dukes and Salt. - +
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The money was part of a £20,000 sum, made over to Robert Waring Darwin by CD and Emma, which formed the basis of a mortgage loan to Edward Herbert, 2d Earl of Powis, negotiated on 14 November 1844 (R. W. Darwin's Investment Book (Down House MS), pp. 57, 70).