To J. B. Innes 7 February [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb 7th
Dear Innes
I am sorry to trouble you; but the Registrar of Friendly Socy. seems to have got into a fine muddle & informs the Post-Office that he has no record of any Trustees for the Down Friendly Soc, although quite lately he sent me a form for Mr Pearson, which was properly filled up & returned to the Registrar who communicated with the National Debt Office.2
Nevertheless we must fill up the inclosed forms.3 Will you therefore be so good as to sign your name in the two places where I have marked with pencil. One of the signatures requires witnessing and I should think the witness had better give occupation & place of residence. Will you kindly let me have the papers back as soon as you can
Yrs very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10833
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Brodie Innes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10833,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10833.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24