To John Higgins   13 December [1850]

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your letter of the 9^th, enclosing your account & informing me that you have placed a draft for ^£187’^s 15’^d 11 to my account at M^ssr. Robarts, Curtis & Co.—

I sincerely hope that Agricultural affairs will improve: fifteen per cent is a very heavy reduction;¹ but we must hope for the best.

I am much obliged for your enquiries about my health, which still keeps & I fear will ever keep very indifferent.

Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin J. Higgins Esq^e