To Solicitor? 1 October 1844
Oct. 1st. 1844.
We hereby request you to have transferred into the Sole name of Erasmus A
Darwin the two Monmouth canal shares & two Trent & Mersey Shares which we have agreed to take in part discharge of the legacy of Emma Darwin under the will of the late Josiah Wedgwood—1
Charles R. Darwin
Emma Darwin Jan 9th. 1845
Footnotes
The text is in Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s hand. ‘Jan 9t h. 1845’ has been added by CD and is presumably the date on which the request was signed.
Summary
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-779
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 779,” accessed on 1 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-779.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3
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