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To Josiah Wedgwood III and E. A. Darwin1   25 July 1844

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We hereby request you to pay the sum of five thousand pounds now in your hands, being trust-money under our marriage-settlement, to Thos: Salt Esq:2 for the disposal of Dr Darwin.3

Charles Robert Darwin

Emma Darwin July 25th 1844

I hereby notify my assent to the above Arrangement

E. A. Darwin.

1
The trustees of the marriage settlement of CD and Emma.
2
Of the Shrewsbury law firm of Dukes and Salt.
3
The money was part of a £20,000 sum, made over to Robert Waring Darwin by CD and Emma, which formed the basis of a mortgage loan to Edward Herbert, 2d Earl of Powis, negotiated on 14 November 1844 (R. W. Darwin’s Investment Book (Down House MS), pp. 57, 70).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-766,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-766