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To John Higgins   9 December 1857

Down Bromley Kent

Dec. 9th. 1857

Ch. Darwin

My dear Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for £248:2:1, placed to my account at the Union Bank.—1

Pray believe me, My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

To | John Higgins Esq

1
The payment was for six months’ rent on CD’s farm at Beesby, Lincolnshire (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 20). Higgins was CD’s land agent. CD signed across a stamp (see also plate in Correspondence vol. 30). In 1853, a penny duty on documents functioning as receipts was introduced. After the new measure came into force on 11 October 1853, any receipt for a sum of £2 or more had to carry a one penny stamp if it was to be an admissible record of the transaction (Annual Register (1853): 56; Economist 11 (1853): 1127). See also Correspondence vol. 5, letter to John Higgins, 2–3 December [1853].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2181F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2181F