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To John Higgins   19 November 1860

Down Kent

Nov 19th 1860

Received from John Higgins Esqre £244"15s"11d, being half-year’s Rent from Beesby & Sutterton, due last Michaelmas.—1

£244.15s.11d

Ch. R. Darwin

1
The payment was for six months’ rent on CD’s farms at Beesby and Sutterton Fen, Lincolnshire (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 20). Higgins was CD’s land agent. On Sutterton, see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to John Higgins, 14 June [1848] and n. 1.

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