From David Thomas Ansted 13 April 1863
Impington Hall | Cambridge.
13 April 1863
My dear Darwin
I am now back again and shall hope to hear from you and make some definite arrangement about the Bond.1 I have written to Ransome2 & shall probably see him in town on Thursday. Will you write to me to the Athenæum and let me know what you think right and fair.
always yours | D. T. Ansted
Footnotes
From 1852, CD had invested in and made bonded loans to Ansted’s Patent Siliceous Stone Company. CD had recently agreed to wait for the formation of Ansted’s new company and the repayment of his loan (see CD Memorandum, 14 February 1863).
Ansted and Frederick Ransome were co-owners of the Patent Siliceous Stone Company (see CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), entries for November 1854 and April 1855).
Summary
Is ready to make some arrangement to repay CD’s bond. Has written to F. Ransome to help arrange repayment and wants CD to write his opinion of a fair scheme.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4088
- From
- David Thomas Ansted
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 159: 74
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4088,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4088.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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