From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[12–24] Oct 1843
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 833)
Summary:
Note of hand, signed by CD, for £260 13s 6d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Note of hand, signed by CD, for £260 13s 6d.
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
Expresses GW's concern if the British Museum were to require him to pledge to do no remunerative work outside what they would pay GW to do. GW, however, is prepared to make that pledge, if necessary.