From G. H. Darwin [29 August 1881]1
6 Queen Ann St
Monday
Dear Father,
I am sorry you do not agree about employing Salt but both W. & I thought it best & I still think so.2 Salt drew the will & was one of the witnesses only a year ago & has a number of papers & title deeds connected with the Estate so that it wd. have been impossible to have had nothing to do with him. The agents are a very large firm of solicitors in Lincolns Inn Fields & the head partner seems a gentleman & clear headed man.3
I have left the will there this morning.
We have talked the matter over with R. & have settled on the Bromley route with funeral at 12.30.4 All the letters are written & the arrangements made. If however you have a strong objection telegraph & I will do it again.
I have been about 3 hrs at Herries & looking over certificates5 & on the go since 8.30 & have more letters to write
I’ll do the best I can & hope things will go without much hitch. I shall drive down with the hearse on Thursday morning
Yrs affec. | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
E. A. Darwin’s funeral arrangements.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13303
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 91
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13303,” accessed on 27 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13303.xml
