skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

From E. A. Darwin   15 December [1864]1

15 Dec.

Dear Charles

I send you a power of Atty. to execute & then return to Messrs Rocke Eyton & Co Old Bank.2

We are distributing as far as we can the Evans property & the parties will give an agreement to sign a release, but we must still remain Trustees as one is a minor.3

Yours affec. | E D

Send one word by one of your Secys that you have received this4

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 December 1864.
Rocke, Eyton and Company were a banking firm with offices in Market Square, Shrewsbury (Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire 1863).
The reference is to Edward Evans. See letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 December 1864 and n. 2.
Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin sometimes wrote letters dictated by CD.

Bibliography

Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire: Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire. Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and the City of Bristol. Post Office directory of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire, with the City of Bristol. London: Kelly & Co. 1856–79.

Summary

Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4717
From
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
DAR 105: B37–8
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4717,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4717.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12

letter