My dear Jos.

Thanks for your two messages.— You will see by enclosed letter, that by paying 51£ all calls to N.W. Railway will be completed. Will you please pay it.—

Have you paid into Robarts for me the 15£ which I before advanced through Erasmus?—²

I presume you have deducted your own payments & interest.— The account will stand thus diag 460.

N. W. Railway 51 £

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409

15 £?

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? ramme

So that there will be about 400£ to invest, which will just buy two shares of Leeds & Bradford.³ Each share being, as far as I remember ^£50 + ^£48. ^s 10. You told me that you had paid 40£ into Robarts: perhaps this included my 15£. You will have to receive the Grt. Western share for me, without indeed this 40£ was from the Grt. Western.—⁴

As you will have no doubt to write to M^r Stokes about the ahead paid shares, will you ask him to buy the two more: if they cost a trifle above the money in hand, I would pay it.—

I am sorry to say there is one other business question, I must ask. In 16^th of Nov. 1835, your Father⁵ made over to me 518£ Debentures in Monmouth Canal, which pays now only 3$\frac{1}{2}$ percent, so that I want to call it in, but Langton tells me, I ought to know whether the sum was lent for definite term.⁶ Can you tell me, or should I ask Frank to look amongst the papers at Maer. The money was originally lent in 1803.

Yours affectionately. | C. Darwin