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From William Erasmus Darwin   [January 1869]1

N. Staffordshire—2 48 . 15
Gr. Northern3 62 . 2 . 7
Great Eastern4 87 . 12 . 4
Midland5 8 . 16 . 3
Monmouth6 54 . 9 . 7
Shrewsbury } 11 . 14 .
Street mortgage
Castle Morton tithes7 19 . 3 . 1
City Bonds 34 . 14 . 9
Penarth Harbour8 }
to 31 Dec 1866 213 . 1 . 1
7/10) 540 . 8 . 8
378 . 6 .
Business Bonds 4 17 . 6
£383 — 3 — 6

PS. I invested the £160 you did not think should be divided in Russian Gov. Bonds.—

Your affect son | W. E. Darwin

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CD annotations

1.1 N.... 3—6 1.15] ‘Jan. 1869’ ink
1
The date is established by CD’s annotation.
2
North Staffordshire Railway Company.
3
Great Northern Railway Company.
4
Great Eastern Railway Company.
5
Midland Railway Company.
6
Monmouth Canal and Railway Company.
7
CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin, had inherited a share of Castle Morton tithes from Josiah Wedgwood I (DAR 227.9: 52), and this share or some part of it had evidently been bequeathed to CD.
8
Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Company.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6541A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6541A