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To C. H. Drinkwater   24 May 1877

[I have before me now an autograph letter, dated, May 24 1877, in which Charles Darwin wishes me success in an undertaking afterwards fully carried out, and encloses a substantial contribution. He writes in a kindly spirit, displaying his interest in the welfare of a district, now a parish, in which his boyhood was spent.]1

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This is an extract of a letter from Drinkwater, dated 11 January 1893, and addressed from St George’s Vicarage, Shrewsbury; the letter was printed with a proposal for a Darwin memorial in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS) record payment of a cheque for £10 to ‘Drinkwater Frankwell School’ on 24 May 1877. As a boy, CD lived at The Mount in the Frankwell area of Shrewsbury (Freeman 1978).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10971G,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10971G