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To the Post Office Savings Bank   1 January [1877?]1

[Down.]

Sir

I enclose the Book of the Down F. S for the interest to be added.—2

I wish to draw out 150£ to be transferred to the account of the Nat. Debt Office, & I shd be much obliged if you would send me the proper forms. I beg you also to inform me whether the transference can be effected by the new regulation, in more direct & simple manner than as on former occasions by the money being sent to me, & my co-trustee.3 I wish to know their [authorisation]

Jan 1st. to Post-Off

ADraft

1
The year is conjectured from the fact that this draft is written on the back of a sheet from the revised fair copy of Cross and self fertilisation, which was completed in October 1876 (Correspondence vol. 24, CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)), and from the date of the Customs, Inland Revenue, and Savings Banks Act, 1877 (see n. 3 below).
2
CD was treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.
3
The trustees of the Down Friendly Society were CD, Charles Pearson, and John Brodie Innes (Correspondence vol. 24, letter to J. M. F. Ludlow, 11 February 1876). Since Innes lived in Scotland, CD probably refers to Pearson. The regulations governing Friendly Societies had been revised by the Friendly Societies Act of 1875, but some later amendments, including one relating to the Post Office and to the national debt commissioners, were made in the Customs, Inland Revenue, and Savings Banks Act of 1877. Subscriptions paid by Friendly Society members were deposited with the Post Office Savings Bank and then transferred to the national debt commissioners, who paid the interest earned (ODNB s.v. Sikes, Charles William).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 the Book] ‘the’ above del ‘my’
2.1 £] above ‘150’
2.1 transferred to the] above del ‘invested & our’
2.1 account of the] interl
2.2 much] interl
2.2 send … to] interl
2.3 the transference] before del ‘this’
2.3 the transference … effected] transposed from after ‘regulation,’
2.3 more] after del ‘any’
2.4 direct] after del ‘simple plan th’
2.4 & simple] interl
2.4 as … the] interl
2.4 money] added after del ‘by a cheque’
2.4 sent] after interl and del ‘from’
2.4 to] interl
2.5 I wish … [authorisation]] del and stetted before del ‘, as I intend to write to Mr. Fawcett *on the subject.— [added] I have the honour to remain’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12967,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12967