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.

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

Acknowledges receipt of £244 15s. 11d.

Acknowledges receipt of £239 9s. 7d.

Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.

Acknowledges receipt of £240 7s. 9d.

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

Sorry he did not meet CD in London.

Discusses investment in land as compared with railway shares.

Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.

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

Acknowledges receipt of £235 7s. 9d.

Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.

Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.

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

Acknowledges receipt of £262 13s. 5d.

Sorry to hear JH is still suffering from gout.

Acknowledges receipt of £255 2s. 10d.

Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.

Acknowledges receipt of £262 8s. 8d.

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

[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?]

Acknowledges receipt of £159 11s. 2d.

Glad to hear that the cottages are nearly finished.