Dear Sir,

Your Tenant at Beesby (M^r Hardy)¹ has spent large sums of money in underdraining his Farm with Tiles, and otherwise has managed it exceedingly well; he found his Fold Yard, and Cattle Sheds too small for the proper treading down of the Straw, and as I (on your behalf) refused to build more; M^r. Hardy three years ago spent £105 in constructing an additional yard, and Cattle accommodation of best bricks and foreign Timber adjoining to his other yard, which work is done in a very substantial and permanent manner.

The rent audit is fixed for Tuesday next the 25^th. before which day I beg to submit for your approval and decision three modes of disposing of this Claim of the Tenant 1^st. For you to pay Hardy back the £105 which he has expended, upon his paying 5 per cent Interest upon that sum in addition to the increased rent of £43.10.0 which he is to pay from Lady Day last; otherwise that the £105 shall remain a lien upon the Farm for 15 years to be paid to him or his Exōrs in the event of his death or removal from the farm, before the expiration of that period, reducing the claim $\frac{1}{15}$^th. part for every year he shall continue Tenant, and to be wholly extinguished at the end of 15 years.

Will you do me the favor to say w^h. of these plans you will prefer?²

I am Dear, Sir, | Yours faithfully | John Higgins

C. R. Darwin Esq