To G. H. Turnbull   12 December [1854]

Down.

Dec. 12th

My dear Sir

I write to acknowledge & thank you for your kind subscription of 1 . 1 . 0 to the Down Coal & Clothing Club.—1 It has been in a depressed state for the last two or three years, but its affairs looked much more prosperous today.

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

See letter to G. H. Turnbull, 28 October [1854]. Turnbull’s subscription of £1 1s. is entered in the list of subscribers in the club’s Honorary subscriptions book (Down House MS) for 1854–5.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1613,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1613