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To Thomas Salt   31 January [1853]

Down Farnborough Kent

Jan. 31st

My dear Sir

I am much obliged by your note received yesterday.1

If it lies in your power, I should be much obliged, if you could dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury St. mortgage for me in the course of the next month or two. It consists of two mortgages of 400£ & 200£, but I should not wish to dispose of either separately.2 If necessary I would pay the Transfer.

I will not forget to enquire, should I meet any likely persons, about the Curacy & House3

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

Mss. Salt & Son

Endorsement: ‘31st Jany. 1853’

1
Salt’s letter to CD has not been found.
2
Robert Waring Darwin had transferred two securities of £200 and £400 of the Trustees of the Shrewsbury Streets, who were responsible for the maintenance of the town’s roads to CD in 1835; CD transferred them to Robert Carden of Shrewsbury in March 1853 (Shrewsbury Archives, SA D3651/B/47/2/30). In his Investment book (Down House MS), pp. 1–2, CD noted that the capital was paid off on 28 March 1853.
3
The reference has not been identified.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

2.3 400£] ‘£’ above‘400’
2.3 200£] ‘£’ above‘200’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1499F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1499F