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To Thomas Salt   24 December 1851

Down Farnborough Kent

Decr. 24th. | 1851.

My dear Sir

Will you be so good, as to give notice to the Executor of the late Captn. Muckleston1, that I wish to receive the 1000£ lent to him on mortgage, to be paid after the proper interval has expired, or sooner should it happen to be convenient to the Executor. The 1000£ was lent under the names of my Trustees Mr. J. Wedgwood & my Brother.2 Mr. Wedgwood will append his signature to this note to show his concurrence in my request.

I beg to remain | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. R. Darwin

Josiah Wedgwood

Mss. Salt & Son.

1
Lieutenant Edward Muckleston died in June 1851. According to CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 31, his executor was his son, the Reverend Edward Muckleston.
2
Josiah Wedgwood III and Erasmus Alvey Darwin were Emma Darwin’s trustees. According to CD’s Investment book, on 24 June 1845, Muckleston was lent £1000 from Emma’s trust for five years; the money was not repaid until 1854. See also Correspondence vol. 5, letter to Josiah Wedgwood III, 1 May [1854], and this volume, Supplement, letter to Thomas Salt, 12 July [1854]

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 1000£] ‘£’ above ‘1000’
1.4 1000£] ‘£’ above ‘1000’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1465F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1465F