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To John Higgins   1 December 1864

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Dec. 1st. 1864

My dear Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for £262 " 13s. 5d. being half-a-year’s rent, placed to my account at the Union Bank.—1

I am sorry to hear that you are still suffering from that most painful illness of Gout.2

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. R. Darwin

To | J. Higgins Esqre—

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.
2
See also this volume, Supplement, letter from John Higgins, 13 June 1862.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4690F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4690F