To John Higgins 2 August [1852]
Down Farnborough | Kent
Augt. 2d.
My dear Sir
I am really much obliged by your kind letter, but am sorry that I should have given you the trouble of writing it.
From what I had occasionally heard & seen in Print, & more especially from what I had heard from a distant connection, having considerable estates in Worscesterhire,1 I had thought that perhaps I could get some increase of Rent by lease. But what you say shows that leases are very unusual in lands under your care, & I confess I somehow quite forgot the very obvious (when recalled to one’s mind) importance of the probable effect on the currency by the wonderful Australian discoveries.2 This, I conceive, would be reason enough by itself against a long lease.
Again I beg to say that I am sorry that you shd. have had the trouble of writing & I remain My dear Sir | Your’s sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Discusses rent reduction and possibility of a lease.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1485
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Higgins
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/6)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1485,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1485.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5