From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/14)
Summary:
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.