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From Francis Darwin   [before 18 October 1870]1

University “Pitt” Club

My dear Father

I am sorry to say that I have only £46–5s– in the bank, & the two bills of Burn’s are together £1152   I am afraid I must have been shockingly extravagant some how; & very idle not kept accounts so that I could seen how things were going. I only got my pass book this morning or I would have written to you before

Your affec son | Francis Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 18 October [1870] (Correspondence vol. 18).
2
Robert Burn was Francis’s tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Francis was an undergraduate from 1866 until 1870, when he received his BA (Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge 5: 329, Cambridge University calendar 1870, p. xxiv; see also Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Robert Burn, 2 December [1865]). CD recorded a payment to Francis of £115 on 18 October 1870 in his Account books–cash account (Down House MS).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7345F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7345F