From D. T. Ansted 23 April 1863
Athenæum Club
23 April 1863
My dear Darwin
I have only this day (on arriving in town) received your most kind note and enclosure of the Bond.1 All I can say in reply is that whatever I can at any time obtain for the 250£ worth of shares shall be immediately paid over to you and that I will take care that if this should happen after my death you shall not be a loser.2 I wish most sincerely that I could do more
I feel that you have acted throughout in the kindest & most friendly manner and as I should myself have desired to act under similar circumstances May you be rewarded—
I am sincerely sorry to hear that you are not well. I trust it is not serious or likely to be tedious.
Always yours most truly | D. T. Ansted.
Footnotes
Summary
Is very grateful for CD’s note and return of the bond for £250; promises to repay CD any profits made from those shares, even in the event of DTA’s death.
Is sorry to hear CD is ill.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4123
- From
- David Thomas Ansted
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Athenaeum Club
- Source of text
- DAR 159: 76
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4123,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4123.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
