This letter is a fragment from an autograph album. In it, CD presumably thanked Higgins for a payment to his account of £252 19s. 2d, six months’ rent on CD’s farm at Beesby in Lincolnshire (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)). Higgins also managed the estate of CD’s sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin at Claythorpe in Lincolnshire; she died in October 1866, and the estate was inherited by CD’s son William Erasmus Darwin. It is possible that Higgins had invited to William to visit him.
Thanks JH for his kind invitation to [William Erasmus Darwin, who had inherited the Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire, also managed by JH, from CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin?]