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Darwin Correspondence Project

To John Higgins   19 November 1860

Down Kent

Nov 19th 1860

Received from John Higgins Esqre £244"15s"11d, being half-year’s Rent from Beesby & Sutterton, due last Michaelmas.—1

£244.15s.11d

Ch. R. Darwin

Footnotes

The payment was for six months’ rent on CD’s farms at Beesby and Sutterton Fen, Lincolnshire (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 20). Higgins was CD’s land agent. On Sutterton, see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to John Higgins, 14 June [1848] and n. 1.

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of £244 15s. 11d.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2988F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Higgins
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2988F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2988F.xml

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