From E. A. Darwin, Charles Darwin, and W. E. Darwin to Thomas Salt   12 April 1864

Dear Sir

We authorize and request you as Agent for M^r. Childe to inform him of our wish to have the principal sum of twenty five thousand pounds now a charge on his Estates and about to be paid off, paid to the account in our joint names at the London & Westminster Bank Lothbury; and to pay all interest due upon the above principal to the account of the Re^vd Charles Langton at the same Bank.¹

E A Darwin | Ch. R. Darwin | W. E. Darwin

Thomas Salt Esq^re | Belmont | Shrewsbury