To Thomas Salt 7 April [1850]
Down Farnborough | Kent
April 7th.
My dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for your expressions about my Father & your very kind offer of assistance.—1 I shall be very glad of the investment of which you speak for 3000 or 3500£.— pray do not trouble yourself to inform me of the names of the parities; as you say it is safe, I am only too happy to leave the whole affair in your hands.2
I will today write to Mess Robarts to buy for me 6500£ Exchequer Bills, about which you have been so good as to give me information: hence there will be this sum ready for investment, whenever you can succeed in finding one.3
With my best thanks | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
T. Salt—Esqre
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for the information about a possible investment.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1319F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Salt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1319F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1319F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
