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From E. A. Darwin   3 March 1867

3 March 1867

Dear Charles

I am not quite sure that this is not a duplicate & perhaps the other is within my will— It is only to tell you that I promised Mark that you would continue the payment of the £20 per annum after my death. The house I give him rent free—1

yours | Eras Darwin

C R Darwin Esq

Payable 1st May & Nov

1
Mark Briggs had been the Darwin family coachman at The Mount, Shrewsbury (Correspondence vol. 1). He lived with the family until Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s death in October 1866, after which he lived in a cottage near The Mount (Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 13).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5428,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5428