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From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1856
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/98)
Summary:

Mr Hardy, CD’s tenant at Beesby, has spent £105 on improvements to the farm. JH suggests different ways of recompensing the tenant, and asks for CD’s decision.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1848
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11)
Summary:

Agrees to pay Mr Mason as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1852
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/2)
Summary:

Explains the effects of the falling prices of wheat and cattle on the rents from CD’s and his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s farms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1852
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/5)
Summary:

Asks for more information about CD’s idea of a ‘more permanent arrangement’ with his tenant.

Explains the drawback of a lease or a corn rent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1859
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/2)
Summary:

Suggests giving Marcus Huish permission to shoot over CD’s Beesby estate, but not to revoke JH’s occasional privilege to take a visitor shooting there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1860
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/14)
Summary:

Sends a plan of the Anwick Estate: will value it on Saturday next (23 June 1860).

Will purchase it for CD at the auction on 25 June if he can secure favourable terms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1860
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/7)
Summary:

Has not received any replies from the parties.

Either he or his son will value the property after JH’s return to Alford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1862
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/104)
Summary:

Sorry he did not meet CD in London.

Discusses investment in land as compared with railway shares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 5
Summary:

Reports that he has an offer of an estate of about 325 acres that CD may find suitable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1845
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 8
Summary:

Sends a list of the work he feels should be done at Beesby [Lincolnshire] to put the farm in order. Hopes to get purchase deeds completed by 10 October.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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