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DCP-LETT-1484F

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

DCP-LETT-1484H

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

DCP-LETT-1026F

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

DCP-LETT-2476G

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
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