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To John Higgins   25 May [1847]

Down Farnborough Kent

May 25th

My dear Sir

I beg to acknowledge & thank you for your note of the 22d. enclosing your account & informing me that £197. 12. is placed to my account at Mr Robarts, Curtis & Co.1

I am much obliged by your wish to see me at Alford this summer.—2 I shd. like it much, but I fear other will hardly render it possible.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin J. Higgins. Esqre

1
Rent collected by Higgins on CD’s farm at Beesby. CD had instructed Higgins to place the rent directly with CD’s bankers (Correspondence vol. 3, letter to John Higgins, 27 May [1846]). CD’s Account Book (Down House MS) records the deposit of £197 12s. 10d. on 26 May 1847: ‘Draft from Mr Higgins (due 15th of June).’
2
Higgins resided in Alford, Lincolnshire, close to CD’s farm at Beesby.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1090,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1090