From Booth Bacon 10 June 1863
Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway, | Secretary’s Office, | Cardiff
10 June 1863
Dear Sir.
I have received your Letter of 8th Inst relative to the Shares which I will place before the Directors on Monday next.1
With reference to the paying up the shares at once the Directors, I may inform you, are not receiving more now than 50 per cent of shares allotted—. they therefore would not receive more than that from you, say £22 per sh deposit & £28 per share in advance of calls.2
If this information should induce you in any way to modify your application of the 8th Inst. perhaps you will kindly inform me thereof before Monday.
Yours Truly | Booth Bacon | Secy
C. R. Darwin Esq
Down | Bromley | Kent.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bradshaw’s railway guide: Bradshaw’s railway almanack, directory, shareholders’ guide, and manual. London: W. J. Adams. Manchester: Bradshaw & Blacklock. 1848–62. Bradshaw’s railway manual, shareholders’ guide, and official directory. London: W. J. Adams. Manchester: Bradshaw & Blacklock. 1863–1923.
Summary
On CD’s application to pay up at once his shares in the Penarth Harbour Dock and Railway; directors’ policy is to receive payment on only 50% of shares allotted.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4211
- From
- Booth Bacon
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cardiff
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 12
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4211,” accessed on 4 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4211.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
