From William Erasmus Darwin [January 1869]1
| N. Staffordshire—2 | 48 | . | 15 | |||
| Gr. Northern3 | 62 | . | 2 | . | 7 | |
| Great Eastern4 | 87 | . | 12 | . | 4 | |
| Midland5 | 8 | . | 16 | . | 3 | |
| Monmouth6 | 54 | . | 9 | . | 7 | |
| Shrewsbury | } | 11 | . | 14 | . | |
| Street mortgage | ||||||
| Castle Morton tithes7 | 19 | . | 3 | . | 1 | |
| City Bonds | 34 | . | 14 | . | 9 | |
| Penarth Harbour8 | } | |||||
| to 31 Dec 1866 | 213 | . | 1 | . | 1 | |
| 7/10) | 540 | . | 8 | . | 8 | |
| 378 | . | 6 | . | |||
| Business Bonds | 4 | 17 | . | 6 | ||
| £383 | — | 3 | — | 6 |
PS. I invested the £160 you did not think should be divided in Russian Gov. Bonds.—
Your affect son | W. E. Darwin
CD annotations
1.1 N.... 3—6 1.15] ‘Jan. 1869’ ink
Footnotes
The date is established by CD’s annotation.
North Staffordshire Railway Company.
Great Northern Railway Company.
Great Eastern Railway Company.
Midland Railway Company.
Monmouth Canal and Railway Company.
CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin, had inherited a share of Castle Morton tithes from Josiah Wedgwood I (DAR 227.9: 52), and this share or some part of it had evidently been bequeathed to CD.
Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Company.
Summary
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6541A
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6541A,” accessed on 9 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6541A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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