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From E. A. Darwin   12 [September 1871]1

12th

Dear Charles

I will go to Bank and look thro’ the Box as if the £500 were purchased at a different time they may not have been placed with the others. In the list you gave me they are entered not as shares but as £4022"6"6 date 1853 I presume the sum you purchased them at—2

Looking at my mem: I see there were 5 shares purchased March 18 1856 & deposited in Tin Box so of course I shall find them all right & will send them tomorrow.3 I will make out a list at same time and avoid future mistakes.

EAD

1
The month and year are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. A. Darwin, 10 September [1871].
2
The list CD sent to Erasmus has not been found, but in CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 57, there is a note that on 1 May 1853 CD transferred stock worth £4022 6s. 6d. in the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Erasmus and Josiah Wedgwood III as trustees for Emma Darwin (see letter to E. A. Darwin, 7 September [1871] and n. 2).
3
Erasmus’s memorandum has not been found, but the transaction is recorded in CD’s Investment book, p. 57.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7935,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7935