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From W. E. Darwin   24 October 1877

Bank, Southampton,

Oct 24 1877

Dear Father,

Will you kindly sign enclosed letter & send me the Key of my Claythorpe title deeds which are deposited at the Union Bk.. I may want Hacon to see them.1 I will see that you have proper security for the £3000 Consols advanced to me.2

Please send Key & letter to me at

New University Club

St James Street

London

Your affect son | W. E. Darwin

1
The enclosure has not been found. William had inherited Claythorpe farm in Lincolnshire from his aunt Susan Elizabeth Darwin in 1866 (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from E. A. Darwin, 11 October [1866] and n. 3). William Mackmurdo Hacon was CD’s solicitor.
2
Consol was an abbreviation of consolidated annuities, and referred to British Government bonds. CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 114, records on 1 February 1869, ‘3000 Stock Transfers as a Loan to William E. Darwin he giving me the deeds of his Lincolnshire Estate as security, deposited at Union Bank’.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11204F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11204F