From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
13 June [1860]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/3)
Summary:
Discusses possible purchase of land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses possible purchase of land.
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.
Has not received any replies from the parties.
Either he or his son will value the property after JH’s return to Alford.
Places affair [land purchase] entirely in JH’s hands. Son [William?] will visit in a week or two.
Sorry he did not meet CD in London.
Discusses investment in land as compared with railway shares.