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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:
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 June [1860]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/15)
Summary:

Places affair [land purchase] entirely in JH’s hands. Son [William?] will visit in a week or two.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
22 June 1860
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £244 5s. 11d. for half-year rents less deductions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
19 Nov 1860
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £244 15s. 11d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
20 May 1861
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £239 9s. 7d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 Dec 1861
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
1 June 1862
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £240 7s. 9d.

Hopes to meet JH at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house in London on Friday 6 June.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Nov 1862
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.

JH’s account of the Tomline estate gives CD some regret.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
31 May 1863
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £235 7s. 9d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
4 Dec 1863
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
31 May 1864
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.

Thanks JH for his kind enquiries about CD’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
1 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £262 13s. 5d.

Sorry to hear JH is still suffering from gout.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
31 May 1865
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £255 2s. 10d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
14 May 1866
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £262 8s. 8d.

Had not heard they had suffered so much from the cattle plague in Lincolnshire.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
[16 Nov 1866]
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

[Acknowledges receipt of £252 19s. 2d.]

Thanks JH for his kind invitation to [William Erasmus Darwin, who had inherited the Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire, also managed by JH, from CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin?]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
23 May 1867
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £159 11s. 2d.

Glad to hear that the cottages are nearly finished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project