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.
Has not received any replies from the parties.
Either he or his son will value the property after JH’s return to Alford.
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.
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.