To George Moultrie Salt   16 March [1867]

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Mar 16.

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note & return the paper signed. When you receive the money will you be so good as to place it to my acct at the Union Bank (Charing Cross Branch).1

Dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

The paper that CD signed has not been identified, but a deposit into CD’s account of £699 1 s. 2 d. is recorded for 20 April 1867 with the notation, ‘Sale of Part of Land at Shrewsbury (Capital)’ (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS); square brackets in original). CD had banked with the Charing Cross branch of the Union Bank of London since 1853 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to John Higgins, 11 April [1853]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5444F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5444F