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To John Higgins   16 November 1868

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

Nov 16 1868

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note which gives so good an account of Mr Hardy’s management of the farm. I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for the sum of £259–11–10 due as rent & placed to my account at the Union Bank—1

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

J. Higgins Esq

LS

1
The payment was for CD’s farm at Beesby in Lincolnshire; Higgins was CD’s land agent. Higgins’s letter to CD has not been found. Francis Hardy was CD’s tenant.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6461F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6461F