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To John Mumford1   1 January 1851

Received of Mr. Mumford, three Pounds five shillings being the proceeds of the Lecture,2 for the Down Coal & Clothing Club.—3

C. Darwin Down Jan 1st. 1851.

1
Master of the free school for boys in Down (Post Office directory of the six home counties 1851).
2
This letter is preserved in the Lubbock Papers at the Royal Society and refers to a lecture given by John William Lubbock. An entry in the Down Coal Club honorary subscriptions book (Down House MS) for 1850–1 reads: ‘Sir. J. Lubbock proceeds of Astronom. Lecture [£]3. 5[s.]’.
3
CD was treasurer of the club from 1848 (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to John Innes, [8 May 1848], n. 2).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1385,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1385