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To Thomas Salt   7 April [1850]

Down Farnborough | Kent

April 7th.

My dear Sir

I thank you sincerely for your expressions about my Father & your very kind offer of assistance.—1 I shall be very glad of the investment of which you speak for 3000 or 3500£.— pray do not trouble yourself to inform me of the names of the parities; as you say it is safe, I am only too happy to leave the whole affair in your hands.2

I will today write to Mess Robarts to buy for me 6500£ Exchequer Bills, about which you have been so good as to give me information: hence there will be this sum ready for investment, whenever you can succeed in finding one.3

With my best thanks | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin

T. Salt—Esqre

Endorsement: ‘7th Apl 1850’

1
Salt’s letter to CD has not been found. Salt had been assisting in winding up the estate of CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin, who died in November 1848.
2
On 17 April 1850, CD noted a bond for £3000 from Joseph, Panton, and Edward Corbett in his Investment book (Down House MS), p. 47.
3
CD’s letter to his bankers, Robarts, Curtis & Co., has not been found, and the investment has not been identified. CD may have been reinvesting a total of £10,000 paid to him by Erasmus Alvey Darwin (this volume, Supplement, letter to Thomas Salt, 12 November [1849]).

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1319F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1319F