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Charles Darwin autograph letter signed, dated 7 April (1850). Darwin writes to his financial advisor, Thomas Salt, who was completing the estate of Darwin's father, who had died in 1848. Writing from his home in Down Farnborough Kent, letter reads in full, ''My dear Sir / I thank you sincerely for your expressions about my Father & your very kind offer of assistance. - I shall be very glad of the investment of which you speak for 3000 or 3500 [pounds]. - pray do not trouble yourself to inform me of the names of the parities; as you say it is safe, I am only too happy to leave the whole affair in your hands. / I will today write to Mess Robarts to buy for me 6500 [pounds] Exchequer Bills, about which you have been so good as to give me information: hence there will be this sum ready for investment, whenever you can succeed in finding one. / With my best thanks / Yours very faithfully / C. Darwin''. Two page letter on bifolium stationery measures 4.5'' x 7.25'' as folded. Small hole at intersecting folds, else near fine condition. With Beckett COA.
Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed --''...I thank you sincerely for your expressions about my Father & your very kind offer of assistance...''
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