From G. H. Darwin 28 August 1881
6 Queen Ann St
28. Aug. 1881 | Sunday night
My dear Father,
I have written to F. Galton, John Price, Reg. D., F. D. & H. F. Bristowe (now sole surviving trustee for F. D).1 I telegraphed to Salt for name of his London agent & have an answer.2
W. arrived here at 1. today & leaves again tonight.3 We have examined the will;4 the following are the provisions
£100 to each exor W. E. D & G H. D
a yr’s wages to each servant5
All real property to you—
& this house with all contained in it (a memo. about giving 4 of the pictures to At. Fanny, Effie & Hope was with the will).6
Personal estate divided into 6 parts
to you
to At. Caroline7
to the Parkers8
to Uncle Hensleigh9
This is absolutely all.
The personal estate is large being in value something over 130 000. Every item is entered with his accustomed neatness, with memos. of the whereabouts of securities. W. has made out a list—
I take the will to the solicitors tomorrow W. has arranged with Herries for a temporary exors account & Leo. & I go tomorrow to Herries to verify the list of securities.10 We found a memo. of birthday & other facts. I telegraphed about this as I think it will be wanted tomorrow. As soon as we hear from you, we shall proceed with further arrangements about the funeral.
I have written so much today I cannot write much more but I thought you might want to know the purely business steps taken.
It came as a great surprize to me & it will be a heavy loss this break up of our London home.
I have in a box locked up the snuff box & watches & a few other trinkets. I suppose they must wait to be valued.
I think if I can I shall run down to York on the last day of the meeting to read the report & get back to town the same evening.11
I have the whole report in type & received it yesterday morning with an urgent request that it shd. be corrected by tonight. I shall get it done I think by then.
Your affectionate son | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Discusses funeral arrangements for E. A. Darwin, and his will.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13301
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 90
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13301,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13301.xml