From W. E. Darwin 25 January 1882
Bank, Southampton,
Jany 25th 1882
My dear Father,
I have just paid the total succession duty for you on the Lincoln Farm & No 6 Q. A. St £66.18.5. Will you please send me a cheque for the amount, as the Lawyers say it should be paid by you & not by the estate.1
Your affect son | W. E. Darwin
Footnotes
William was an executor of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s will. CD had inherited the Lincoln property and the house on Queen Anne Street in London (see Correspondence vol. 29, letter to W. E. Darwin, 13 September [1881]). The lawyers handling the estate were Salt & Sons of Shrewsbury. A cheque for £66 18s. 5d. to ‘W. E. Darwin (Succession Duty, Invested)’ was recorded in CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS) on 26 January 1882.
Summary
Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13645F
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13645F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13645F.xml
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