My dear Jos.

Many thanks for your letter. I enclose my note for Stokes, which will you kindly take the trouble to read & his previous note to me.—² The briefest note from you to him, authorising the purchase & explaining the payment & giving your address will suffice.— There is, however, one point will you be so good as to decide.— Very stupidly I have quite forgot, what was the sum you have advanced for me in paying the calls &c.—but I judge from the sum you mention you have to pay to Elizabeth,³ that the money now in hand will nearly cover that & that there is an additional 400£ to be received presently: in this latter case, that money will do for the 5£ calls, (which if I understand Stokes) note will amount to 200£ on the 15^th of October.— Will you be so kind as to decide this point for me, which I hope won’t much trouble you.—

The 50£ interest is delightful.⁴

Remember sometime you have to repay me 15£.⁵ I wonder whether we c^d pay off all the London & N Western calls.—⁶ I long, almost as much as you can, to have done with all this eternal trouble about calls.— You must, I imagine just mention to Stokes, whether he must deduct or whether you will pay the Brokerage: I have no idea what that is per 1000£.—

Do not execrate me much for this trouble.— | Yours affectionately | C. Darwin

If you do not approve for any reason of my note to Stokes, do not send it, but write yourself without enclosing mine & I would write independently to thank him.—